In alignment with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Health Sector Renewal Investment Initiative, the Coordinating Minister of Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Dr. Ali…
Browsing: Malaria
The Beninese government has obtained 215,900 doses of a malaria vaccine, marking a significant step in the fight against one of the most deadly diseases for…
As global temperatures rise due to climate change, the impact on the transmission of vector-borne diseases, such as malaria, becomes increasingly evident. In Isiolo, Kenya, a…
Following a similar announcement by Ghana last week, Nigeria’s food and drug agency said on Monday that Oxford University’s R21 malaria vaccine had received preliminary approval.…
A new malaria vaccine that has been termed a “world-changer” by the scientists who created it, and Ghana has become the first country to approve it. Contrary to…
Kenya launched a program this week to immunise more than 400,000 kids against the mosquito-borne illness with the world’s first malaria vaccine. The widespread vaccination drive…
Developing nations including Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi are asked to apply for funding to receive the malaria vaccine by the WHO and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.…
The upper chamber of the National assembly has turned down the plans by the Ministry of Health to procure mosquito nets with $200 million under its…
The World Health Organization (WHO) recommended widespread use of the world’s first malaria vaccine for children on Wednesday, hailing it as a breakthrough in “science, child…
Wale Fatade, The Conversation Nigeria accounts for nearly a quarter of deaths from malaria in the world – in 2018 the numbers stood at 95,000. Three…