OPINION: With vaccine deliveries across Africa, the race for equity begins

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By Dr. Solomon Zewdu On February 24, 600,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Accra, Ghana. Two days later, another 504,000 doses arrived in Ab...

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Yellow fever in Nigeria continues to spread

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A Nigerian yellow fever outbreak detected early last month is worsening and causing many cases and deaths across five of the country’s 36 states. ...

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Kenya joins global trial of Oxford University’s COVID-19 vaccine

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Kenya has joined the global efforts in search of an effective vaccine for COVID-19 with the start of a trial evaluating a leading COVID-19 vaccine can...

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WHO chief warns of malaria spike in Africa

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The World Health Organization (WHO) chief warned Wednesday that border closures and trade disruptions due to COVID-19 precautions could cause malaria ...

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Nigeria targets 26M people in Yellow Fever campaign

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A vaccination center in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, is swarming with people, a sign that Nigeria's campaign to vaccinate more people against yellow feve...

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Yellow fever kills 10 in Ethiopia, WHO ships 1.45 million vaccines

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The World Health Organization is releasing more than a million doses of yellow fever vaccine from its emergency stockpile after the deadly mosquito-bo...

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Congo declares end to worst yellow fever epidemic in decades

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Democratic Republic of Congo's worst yellow fever outbreak in decades has ended two months after Angola declared its epidemic to be over, following a ...

 Why the Zika virus is causing alarm

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Global health officials are racing to better understand the Zika virus behind a major outbreak that began in Brazil last year and has spread to many c...

Congo, Angola begin mass vaccination drive against yellow fever

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Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola began one of the biggest ever emergency vaccination campaigns in Africa this week, working with the World Heal...

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UN Bungles Response to Africa’s Yellow Fever Outbreak

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The World Health Organization and its partners shipped more than 6 million yellow fever vaccines to Angola in February to quash an emerging epidemic, ...

Suspected Congo yellow fever cases up 38 percent – WHO

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The number of suspected yellow fever cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo has jumped 38 percent in the last three weeks, the World Health Organiz...

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15 million people to be vaccinated to contain Yellow Fever outbreak

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The World Health Organization is leading a mass yellow fever vaccination campaign in central Africa to prevent the national and international spread o...

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Red Cross asks for 1.4 M dollars to fight Yellow Fever

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The Red Cross launched a $1.4 million emergency appeal Wednesday to fight the spread of yellow fever in Angola, which faces its worst outbreak in 30 y...

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Congo launches Yellow Fever vaccination campaign

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The Democratic Republic of Congo says it will begin a campaign in July 2016 to vaccinate 11.6 million people against yellow fever after an epidemic w...

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WHO to launch emergency yellow fever vaccination in Angola, Congo

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The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday that it will launch emergency yellow fever vaccination campaigns along the border between Angola ...

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Congo almost runs out of yellow fever vaccine amid epidemic

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Democratic Republic of Congo has almost run out of yellow fever vaccine in Kinshasa, in the same week that the government declared an epidemic of the ...

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Congo declares yellow fever epidemic

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Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday declared a yellow fever epidemic in three provinces, including the capital Kinshasa, after confirming 67 cases ...

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Congo declares yellow fever epidemic, 1,000 suspected cases

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Democratic Republic of Congo declared a yellow fever epidemic in three provinces including the capital Kinshasa on Monday after confirming 67 cases of...

Fake vaccination papers let yellow fever spread in Angola

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The world's worst yellow fever outbreak in decades took hold in an Angolan slum because its early victims were Eritrean migrants whose false vaccinati...

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Yellow fever outbreaks in Africa need action, mass vaccination – WHO

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Outbreaks of deadly yellow fever in Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo do not constitute a global health emergency but require stepped-up con...