Africa

The African Vaccine Acquisition Trust (AVAT), Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and COVAX have urged international community  to make their donations to Africa in a manner that will allow countries to fully…

Kenyan  President Uhuru Kenyatta has warned against complacency in Africa’s COVID-19 response, saying the pandemic is likely to get worse in the coming months. He however, lauded the continent’s concerted response to the disease, saying…

A month of lockdown across Africa cost the continent about 2.5 percent of its annual GDP, equivalent to about 65.7 billion U.S. dollars per month, a newly published United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) report revealed on…

Just few months after containing the dreaded Ebola virus disease, the World Health Organization, WHO, has announced the presence of another rampaging virus, Zika, on the continent. In a statement last Friday, WHO informed that Zika…

The African Union last weekend adopted the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, as one of its five Regional Collaborating Centres for Disease Control. It is part of the AU’s plans to own functional health institutions that conduct…