Healthcare
Africa to ramp up vaccine production
Dakar-based vaccine manufacturing initiative could be a blueprint for vaccine manufacturing facilities across the continent
Health
The real impact of the new Malaria vaccine in Kenya
Since the vaccine was introduced in parts of Kenya, hospitalizations for children under 5 for severe malaria have fallen substantially, and there is a drop in child deaths
coronavirus
'Our goal is speedy vaccination of 800 million Africans'
—Benedict Okey Oramah, President of Afreximbank and Chairman, Board of Trustees of the African Union COVID-19 Response Fund.
coronavirus
Africa announces the rollout of 400m vaccine doses to the African Union Member States and the Caribbean
The first time Africa has undertaken a continent-wide procurement of this magnitude, the vaccines are sufficient to immunise a third of the African people.
Health
Ghana receives COVID-19 vaccinations
First historic shipment from international COVAX facility
