Scientists have released the first real-world data from Africa on the effectiveness of two doses of AstraZeneca/ChaAd0x-1 COVID-19 vaccination, showing that while protective against SARS-CoV-2, immunity against the delta ...
May 11, 2022
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The World Health Organization (WHO) is supporting African companies to make a COVID vaccine. But today, in an article co-published with German newspaper Die Welt, The BMJ can reveal that a foundation representing vaccine ...
Feb 9, 2022
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The African continent is on course to reach its target of vaccinating at least 70% of its population against COVID-19 by the end of 2022, the head of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told reporters on ...
Jan 27, 2022
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Cases of COVID have plummeted in Africa and deaths are declining for the first time since the Omicron-dominated fourth wave of the virus reached its peak, the UN said Thursday.
Jan 20, 2022
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The COVID-19 pandemic has tested Africa's public healthcare systems. It exposed weaknesses, gaps and inequalities—but also some potential solutions.
Jan 19, 2022
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A COVID-19 antibody survey conducted in Sierra Leone is the first nationally representative investigation of COVID-19 seroprevalence conducted on the African continent and presents evidence of large-scale underreporting of ...
Dec 21, 2021
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The impact of the pandemic on the African continent has been varied due to the fact that African countries are not on equal footing. For example, the lowest income countries may have among the highest burden of infectious ...
Dec 15, 2021
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The African continent might not reach the target of vaccinating 70% of its 1.3 billion population against COVID-19 until the second half of 2024, a target many of the world's richer countries have already met, the World Health ...
Dec 14, 2021
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On the heels of World AIDS Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the Republic of Botswana as the first "high burden" country to be certified for achieving key milestones for the elimination of mother-to-child ...
Dec 7, 2021
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African health officials and the United Nations are warning of a looming shortage of more than 2 billion syringes for mainly low- and middle-income countries around the world as the supply of COVID-19 doses rises, and routine ...
Oct 28, 2021
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