Healthcare

Africa to ramp up vaccine production

Dakar-based vaccine manufacturing initiative could be a blueprint for vaccine manufacturing facilities across the continent
Health

The real impact of the new Malaria vaccine in Kenya

Since the vaccine was introduced in parts of Kenya, hospitalizations for children under 5 for severe malaria have fallen substantially, and there is a drop in child deaths
World Health Organization
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Benedict Okey Oramah, President of Afreximbank and Chairman, Board of Trustees of the African Union
coronavirus

'Our goal is speedy vaccination of 800 million Africans'

—Benedict Okey Oramah, President of Afreximbank and Chairman, Board of Trustees of the African Union COVID-19 Response Fund.
The vaccine acquisition is a unique milestone for the African continent.
coronavirus

Africa announces the rollout of 400m vaccine doses to the African Union Member States and the Caribbean

The first time Africa has undertaken a continent-wide procurement of this magnitude, the vaccines are sufficient to immunise a third of the African people.
Staff unload the first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines distributed by COVAX at Kotoka International Ai
Health

Ghana receives COVID-19 vaccinations

First historic shipment from international COVAX facility
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