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GAVI

From COVID-19 to cholera: Malawi’s health workers fight to get immunisation back on track.

First COVID-19, then a prolonged cholera outbreak – overlapping crises have stretched Malawi’s health workers to breaking point, as routine immunisation suffered. Recovery is now top of the agenda.

26
Apr
2023

GAVI

African scientists are working to pool data that decodes diseases – a giant step

Time and information is of the essence when tackling infectious diseases across countries and continents.

15
May
2023

CDC

COVID-19 Out: Securing Nigeria’s Borders

CDC and Nigeria’s work to screen people for COVID-19 and collaboration with partners to offer vaccination clinics at ports builds relationships with Nigeria’s population.

10
May
2023

Chronicle

Government lifts all Covid-19 protocols at the country’s ports of entry | The Chronicle

The Zimbabwean government has lifted all COVID-19 protocols that were being implemented at the country’s ports of entry.

10
May
2023

News Medical

Exploring COVID-19 immunization speed and timing in Africa

Scientists have rapidly developed vaccines against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2)

10
May
2023

Africa CDC

The Transition Beyond the Acute Phase of COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa

WHO Lifts the Status of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Pandemic as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).

09
May
2023

Brookings

Building Africa’s capacity for pandemic and epidemic intelligence

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed that coordination and collaboration between countries on surveillance and epidemic intelligence...

09
May
2023

Brookings

Ethiopia’s lessons from COVID-19

These measures helped Ethiopia to be among the few African countries that have maintained essential health services during the pandemic.

12
May
2023

The Independent

Angola drops COVID-19 test requirement for travellers

The Angolan government has eliminated the requirement of presenting a vaccination certificate or a negative COVID-19 test result for travellers entering or leaving the country, starting from Saturday, according to a presidential decree.

17
Jul
2023

Africa CDC

The Mass COVID-19 vaccination Campaign in the Democratic Republic of Congo reaches over 300,000 people

The Ministry of Health identified the mass vaccination campaign as one of the strategies to rapidly increase COVID-19 vaccine uptake by the eligible population in DRC.

14
Jul
2023