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The African Vaccine Acquisition Task Team (AVATT) established by African Union Chair President Cyril Ramaphosa yesterday reported to a special meeting of the AU Bureau of the Assembly that it has secured a provisional 270 million…

Nigeria's National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has says the country will soon  get 42 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to cover one fifth of its population. Faisal Shuaib, executive director, NPHCDA, disclosed…

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has gone into self-quarantine after learning that a guest at a charity dinner he attended tested positive for coronavirus, his office said Wednesday, October 28. "President Cyril Ramaphosa has…

Patients in Nigeria clearly did not know that yesterday, September 17, was the 2020 World Patients Safety Day, marked globally to enhance global understanding of patient safety, increase public engagement in the safety of health care and…

The World Health Organization (WHO) today commended the government of South Africa for its determined efforts that have helped to bend the COVID-19 pandemic curve. WHO is greatly encouraged by the ongoing measures to suppress the spread of…

Becomes first African country to be certified free by WHO Togo has received validation from the World Health Organization (WHO) for having eliminated human African trypanosomiasis or “sleeping sickness” as a public health…

 The independent Africa Regional Certification Commission (ARCC) for Polio Eradication officially declared on Tuesday that the World Health Organization (WHO) African Region is free of wild poliovirus. This marks the eradication of the…

The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed hope that the coronavirus pandemic will be shorter than the 1918 Spanish flu and last less than 2 years, if the world unites and succeeds in finding a vaccine. The disclosure was made by…

The Federal Government of Nigeria says it is working with global health and research organisations developing COVID-19 vaccines to get a part of the COVAX Facility and Gavi-supported 2 billion vaccine doses as soon as they are available.…

Reaches 100 cases in five weeks “The virus is spreading across a wide and rugged terrain which requires costly interventions and with COVID-19 draining resources and attention, it is hard to scale-up operations.” The number of…