Uganda has received 1200 Ebola vaccine candidates from the World Health Organisation to be used in the Tokomeza Ebola vaccine trial. The country has confirmed 142…
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Uganda’s president has extended a six-week lockdown on two regions at the heart of an Ebola outbreak that has claimed 55 lives, but insisted the disease’s progress…
Ahead of World Aids Day, The National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) in partnership with UN Women and the Joint United Nations Programme on…
Zimbabwean health workers have left the country in droves over the past year, a senior official at the Health Services Board (HSB) revealed. According to the…
As global concerns mount over the threat of a new Ebola epidemic, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said it has commenced clinical trial against the Sudan…
Five Congolese refugees have been isolated at Nyakabande refugee transit camp in Kisoro District after testing positive for Covid-19. The assistant district health officer, Ms Annette…
Malawi has received 2.9 million doses of oral cholera vaccine as an outbreak continues to spread across the country. The vaccine consignment comes as the death…
As part of Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s “zero-Covid” policy, dozens of cities have been locked down. Wuhan, where the coronavirus was first discovered, is one of…
Nigeria Country Director of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USCDC), Dr. Mary Boyd has said that about 1.9 million people living with…
The Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe has announced the approval of the use of long-acting injectable cabotegravir (CAB-LA) as a pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention,…