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A three-week lockdown has been declared in two districts of Uganda as the country battles an Ebola outbreak. Bars, nightclubs, places of worship and entertainment venues will be closed in Mubende and neighbouring Kassanda, and a curfew…

All is set for the world’s first-ever mass vaccination against malaria as the Global Alliance for Vaccines And Immunizations (GAVI) opens a process for countries to apply for funding and support towards the roll-out of the historic new…

Ghana has announced the preliminary finding of two cases of Marburg virus disease and if confirmed these would the first such infections recorded in the country. Marburg is a highly infectious viral haemorrhagic fever in the same…

The Democratic Republic of the Congo earlier this week declared the end of the Ebola outbreak that erupted less than three months ago in Mbandaka, the capital of Equateur Province in the northwest. It was the third outbreak in the province…

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB), has approved the establishment of African Pharmaceutical Technology Foundation for A,frica’s access to technologies. According to the bank, this is for the…

“Last year, we lost an average of 970 people every day. This is a catastrophically high toll,” - Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa.

... becomes fourth African country to be validated by WHO

Health authorities in Mozambique today declared an outbreak of wild poliovirus type 1 after confirming that a child in the country’s north-eastern Tete province had contracted the disease. This marks the second imported case of wild…

As the World Immunization Week 2022 ends today, World Health Organization (WHO) says the continent is witnessing a surge in outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases over the past year.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo today kicked off Ebola vaccination in Mbandaka, the capital city of Equateur Province in the north-west, to halt the spread of the virus following an outbreak which has claimed two lives since 21…