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.…
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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…
Private and Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) health providers in five African countries – Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda – can now access a new…
According to national and international sources, some 60 million Ethiopians were at risk of malaria infection by 2019
Severe malaria cases in Rwanda fell by 38 per cent in two years, the Ministry of Health in the country said in a report. The health…