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No fewer than seven hundred thousand children under the age of five have been targeted by the Cross River State government for its integrated measles vaccination campaign slated for the last week of October. The Director General of Primary Health Care Development Agency, Janet Ekpenyong, said this in during a media briefing in Calabar Ekpeyong […]
Health systems in Uganda already weakened by the coronavirus pandemic and budget cut are currently struggling to contain the Ebola outbreak caused by a strain for which there are no proven vaccines or antiviral treatments and which can’t be detected by rapid tests. There are already 43 confirmed cases of the Sudan strain of the […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended widespread use of the RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S) malaria vaccine among children in sub-Saharan Africa and in other regions with moderate to high P. falciparum malaria transmission. Children across much of Africa are to be vaccinated against malaria in a historic moment in the fight against the deadly disease. Dr […]
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