World Health Organization (Geneva) By Dr Rose Jalang?o About five years ago, I stepped into an exciting new role within Kenya’s National Vaccines and Immunisation Program (NVIP). Among other things, I was charged with spearheading the introduction of new vaccines to help improve the health of our population. Barely a week into my new role, […]
By Frederico Links ANTI-VACCINE PROPAGANDISTS will latch on to anything to try and persuade people not to get vaccinated. The latest attempts involve spreading narratives about the human immune system being much more capable of fending off Covid-19 than vaccines. At the heart of many of these misleading natural immunity narratives, which have gone global, […]
By Lameck Masina Blantyre, Malawi — Malawi plans a nationwide rollout of the newest typhoid vaccine after a two-year study, the first in Africa, found it safe and effective in children as young as 9 months. Previously available vaccines were found not effective in children younger than 2 years and even then only provided short-term […]
By Kesete Admasu In the midst of the tragedy and turmoil caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s gratifying to see work continuing in Africa to find new ways of fighting malaria, a very old disease that has been a formidable foe for thousands of years and still kills 400,000 people every year, most of them […]
By Onyebuchi Ezigbo The federal government has said that it’s targeting to commence local manufacturing of Covid-19 vaccines in the next 12 months. Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye who revealed the government’s plan while speaking on Tuesday on the ARISE TV Morning Show, […]
