Health

The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is providing an additional $8 million in assistance to support the rapid response to the Ebola outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the Republic of Guinea, and to strengthen Ebola preparedness in seven high-risk border …

One year on from the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, APO Group (www.APO-opa.com), the leading Pan-African communications consultancy and press release distribution service, continues to work on many fronts in the battle against the virus. In March 2020, at a time of great uncertainty for Africa, APO Group Founder and Chairman, Nicolas Pompigne-Mognard, and his …

Libya’s Minister of Health of the new Government of National Unity, Ali Zanati, on Sunday met with the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) for Libya, Elizabeth Hoff, and discussed providing anti-COVID-19 vaccines to Libya. “The meeting touched on the problems facing southern Libya in light of the COVID-19 …

The African Union said that African countries should continue to use the Oxford-AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine, as several nations in Europe and the Democratic Republic of Congo have suspended its use due to concerns of blood clots. Many countries in Africa are relying on the AstraZeneca vaccine as it is cheaper …

With just a tap of a finger, some people with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) can get in touch with a healthcare worker to get support over the phone. This support can both help people to start treatment more quickly and to stay on treatment once they’ve started. It also reduces the …

African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) President Dr. Akinwumi Adesina has called for vaccine justice for Africa. Speaking at the launch of the Bank’s African Economic Outlook 2021 report on Friday, Adesina decried the lack of Covid-19 vaccines reaching Africa. “We need global solidarity and vaccine justice for Africa,” Africa’s premier development …

Nigeria’s Lagos state started its coronavirus vaccination campaign on Friday after receiving over 500,000 doses of the AstraZeneca jab, despite concerns in some countries over the safety of the vaccine. Lagos state health commissioner Akin Abayomi told reporters that authorities had spent a long time looking over the data and …

From the start of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, women in leadership positions all around the world have played, and continue to play, significant roles in helping their communities get through the pandemic. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern may be the most popular example of this; her leadership has helped her country …

China and Africa have long decades of interaction. The relationship has changed over the years and Chinese outreach to Africa has often been viewed with deep appreciation, especially helping to overcome development challenges. As expectedly, China appears moving steadily to deliver on its pledge by offering manufactured vaccines aim at …

As the world lauded the first deliveries of COVID-19 vaccines to African nations through COVAX, we must also recognise that these vaccines need to reach the arms of people living right across the continent, to the last mile. A complex arrangement of logistics and health systems infrastructure needs to be …