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✳ High-level vaccine efficacy of 77% in African children achieve WHO-specified efficacy goal of 75% ✳ Vaccine, trialled in 450 children, shows favourable safety profile and was well-tolerated ✳ Vaccine candidate, R21/Matrix-M, has excellent potential for large-scale manufacturing and low-cost supply London, UK | THE INDEPENDENT | Researchers from the …

WHO says 650,000 children in 3 African countries get malaria vaccine Nairobi, Kenya | XINHUA | More than 650,000 children in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi have received the malaria vaccine in the last two years since its launch, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday ahead of World Malaria …

Long-term investments, use of real-time data to inform malaria interventions and youth-led campaigns are key to boosting progress towards disease elimination in Africa Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | Countries across the sub-Saharan African region should explore fiscal incentives that can stimulate investments in malaria control programs amid the quest to eradicate …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The COVID-19 pandemic is a long way from over but there are many reasons to be optimistic, according to the head of the World Health Organisation Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Although January and February saw six consecutive weeks of plummeting COVID-19 cases, the World Health …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The World Health Organisation (WHO) has encouraged countries to strengthen their data and information system if they are to address inequities that exist in the health system. Quoting their recent global assessment which found only 51% of the countries have included disaggregated data in …

Dar es Salaam | THE INDEPENDENT | President Samia Suluhu Hassan has today announced that Tanzania will come out of isolation and take a new direction in the battle against COVID-19. She also ordered the lifting of a ban on several media houses. “I intend to form a committee of experts, …

Roll-out of these vaccines is unacceptably slow according to Hans Henri P. Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe Copenhagen, Denmark | Xinhua | As the European region currently fights a resurgence of COVID-19 transmissions, the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe on Thursday called upon the governments in the region …

Geneva, Switzerland | Xinhua | The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday released a report on the global tracing of COVID-19 origins, following a joint research with China on issues including the pathways of the virus and future investigation in different countries. A total of 34 experts from the WHO and …

Geneva, Switzerland | Xinhua | The World Health Organization (WHO) has been particularly condemning rich countries, saying they are directly responsible for the deaths of high-risk people in low- and middle-income countries, USA Today reported on Thursday. “Countries that are now vaccinating younger, healthy people at low risk of disease are …

Geneva, Switzerland | Xinhua | The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday said it was concerned about the potential criminal exploitation of the huge unmet global demand for COVID-19 vaccines, warned against counterfeit vaccines and urged people to stick to government-run vaccination programs. According to WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, …