Taking vaccination closer to underserved communities- States optimize Africa Vaccination Week commemoration.

Vaccination exercise at Kara in Benin City during the Africa Vaccination Week..

Benin City, 19 May, 2019 - Sitting inside the Church, Pastor Evelyn Omigie of Home for the Needy Foundation (IDP) Uhogua, Benin City, Edo state says, “We are grateful for the recent health intervention rendered by the government and the World Health Organization. The vaccination campaign will go a long way in protecting our children from preventable diseases especially those who had missed some of the routine immunization doses due to displacement of their parents.” 

Lower speed limits, save lives!

School children who participated in the campaign

17 - 23 May 2021, Dodoma: The United Nations Global Road Safety Week (UNGRSW) was commemorated in the week of 17th -23rd May, with a global campaign for 30km/h speed limit on streets where people and traffic mix example near schools and other areas with big populations.

Rapid tests up Zimbabwe’s COVID-19 diagnosis

Rapid tests up Zimbabwe’s COVID-19 diagnosis
Zimbabwe has upscaled the use of antigen rapid diagnostic tests to reinforce its COVID-19 response, hitting a daily rate of 4000 tests – a fourfold increase reached within just two months after the method was launched in November 2020.

Ebola vaccination starts in Sierra Leone to prevent new outbreak

A health worker receiving their first dose on day one of the vaccination
Freetown, 11 May 2021 – Ebola vaccination kicked off today in Sierra Leone as the country takes proactive public health measures to protect people at high risk of infection in case of any potential cross-border transmission of the disease from the ongoing outbreak in neighbouring Guinea.