Lilongwe – In mid-October 2022, Malawi completed the fourth round of a vaccination campaign against wild poliovirus. In February 2022 the country confirmed a case of wild polio, the first since 1992. The Ministry of Heal…
Read moreIn Marsabit County, in northern Kenya, communities are fleeing from the worst drought in 40 years, and the food insecurity that it has triggered. It is one of the eight counties that comprise Kenya’s arid and semi-arid region.
Read moreAs soon as the Sudan ebolavirus was detected in Uganda and an outbreak was declared on 20 September 2020, the country’s health authorities placed emphasis on supportive care, as no effective vaccine for this species of ebolavirus has yet been licenced.
Read moreLimpopo, South Africa – One of the strategies that boosted South Africa’s COVID-19 vaccination drive involved decentralizing the rollout to the grassroots. Provincial health authorities deployed teams to communities to e…
Read moreLichinga, Mozambique – In Mozambique’s northern Niassa province, health workers have been trained on data management for an effective rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination. The training by World Health Organization with su…
Read moreVuyelwa Mnyameni fell ill with COVID-19 in June 2020. She remembers vividly how sick she was. “I just hung in there for the kids,” she says, recalling how she had to leave home to quarantine at one of Free State Province’s official sites for 15 days, far away from her family.
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