Hungarian Government provides mobile infrastructure to enable the Ministry of Health and WHO to manage critically ill patients with highly infectious diseases in Uganda
Soroti, October 26, 2021 – The Government of Hungary in cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO) has provided a mobile, rapidly deployable container structure, fully equipped with the appropriate medical equipment to support rapid and effective clinical management of severe and critically ill patients with highly infectious diseases in Uganda.
Ethiopia launches the first ever nOPV2 vaccination campaign alongside commemoration of World Polio Day
Osun State targets over one million children for vaccination against Polio
Osogbo, 25 October, 2021 - As a health worker and Local Immunization Officer in Ilesha West Local Government Area (LGA), Osun State, Mrs Toyin Ajewole has seen first-hand effects of a child not being vaccinated.
Over 80 million reached as Africa trailblazes novel polio vaccine
Joint statement by WHO-UNICEF-ROTARY on World Polio Day
WHO unveils new analytical tools on the ESPEN data portal
Cross River State leverages polio campaign structure to integrate Covid-19 vaccination.
Calabar, 21 October, 2022 - Bassey Eyo, a mother of three, living in Cross River State was delighted that she and her child could receive the COVID-19 vaccine and the novel Oral Polio Vaccine (nOPV2) respectively at a health center in Big Qua.
She had travelled 5 miles to get to Big Qua town with the hope of accessing both vaccines.
More COVID-19 vaccines arrive in Ghana
hana’s robust COVID-19 vaccination campaign continues to receive a boost with donations through the COVAX Facility.
The Ministry of Health has in the past few weeks, taken delivery of more than 2 million doses of AstraZeneca’s Covishield vaccines from the Governments of Germany, Denmark, Iceland, Norway with Germany contributing the largest single consignment of over 1.5 million doses.
The donations are in fulfillment of pledges made by the governments to contribute to COVAX.
Strengthening yellow fever laboratory testing capacities in South Sudan
Juba, 14 October 2021 – a team of technical officers in the National Public Health Laboratory have been trained over the last week, aiming at building their capacity to contribute to controlling yellow fever outbreaks.