WTO Agrees on Limited IP Waiver for COVID-19 Vaccines and Package to Reduce Harmful Fishing Subsidies 17/06/2022 John Heilprin & Elaine Ruth Fletcher Limited IP waiver text says WTO members “will decide” on inclusion of COVID-19 tests and treatments within six months. The World Trade Organization’s first ministerial conference in four and a half years reached agreement early Friday morning on what officials described as “an unprecedented outcome” of six agreements, including a deal to curb some fishing […] Continue reading -> Monkeypox: Africa CDC Demands Equal Treatment in Global Allocation of Limited Vaccine Doses 16/06/2022 Paul Adepoju Rich countries are rushing to get doses – but African countries say they should get the vaccines first for a disease endemic to the continent. A plan by the World Health Organization (WHO) to create a vaccine sharing mechanism that will attempt to provide equitable access to vaccines effective against monkeypox disease will only be […] Continue reading -> Spanish COVID-19 Antibody Test to be Manufactured by Biotech Africa Under Open License Agreement with WHO’s C-TAP 16/06/2022 Raisa Santos A new sublicense agreement for a COVID-19 antibody test has been announced Thursday by the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) on behalf of the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP) and South African company Biotech Africa. The new agreement builds on the first non-exclusive licensing agreement announced by WHO and MPP last year with […] Continue reading -> Protecting Children: 10 Years of Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention 16/06/2022 Andre-Marie Tchouatieu & Abena Poku-Awuku On the Day of the African Child, Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) reflects on what 10 years of seasonal malaria chemoprevention has meant for young children in the Sahel, and how to protect more children going forward. Malaria, a disease that is both a cause and consequence of poverty, has plagued endemic-country health systems, economies […] Continue reading -> WTO Ministerial Conference Extended for Another Day as Pressure Builds for Results 15/06/2022 John Heilprin & Elaine Ruth Fletcher The World Trade Organization (WTO) is extending its 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) for a fifth day, buying time for delegates to negotiate some tough deals in five main areas: the pandemic response, COVID-19 vaccines, fishing subsidies, food shortages and agriculture. The long-delayed ministerial conference, which opened on Sunday and was originally planned to close on […] Continue reading -> Pyrrhic Victory if WTO Agrees to Patent Waiver for COVID-19 Vaccines 14/06/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher After nearly 18 months of debate, World Trade Organization (WTO) members now appear likely to approve a limited waiver of patent rights on COVID-19 vaccines in their closing session on Wednesday. But if the current draft text is approved as it stands, it may be a pyrrhic victory for the medicines access groups that fought […] Continue reading -> Tedros Convenes WHO Emergency Committee to Discuss Monkeypox Outbreak 14/06/2022 Kerry Cullinan Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), has called a meeting of the emergency committee for next Thursday to discuss whether monkeypox should be declared a public health emergency. This follows the spread of the disease in at least 32 new countries outside of the nine African countries where it is […] Continue reading -> WTO Opens with Note of ‘Cautious Optimism’ on Prospects for Agreement over Fisheries Subsidies and COVID Vaccine IP Waiver 12/06/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher The World Trade Organization’s Director General Dr Ngozi Okonjo Iweala said she was “cautiously optimistic” about the potential for WTO members to reach long-delayed agreements on issues such as a limited IP waiver for COVID vaccines as well as a decision to curb harmful fisheries subsidies that allow big industrial rigs to plunder the oceans […] Continue reading -> New WHO Report Affirms Need to Study SARS-CoV2 Lab Leak Theory – Alongside Spillover Narrative 10/06/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher The first report by the new WHO-convened expert group, Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO) has fanned the flames of controversy over evidence about whether a lab leak or a natural “spillover” of the virus from animals to humans was the most likely source from which the COVID pandemic emerged – […] Continue reading -> Eritrea Has Yet to Start COVID-19 Vaccinations as Most African Countries Lag Far Behind Global Targets 09/06/2022 Kerry Cullinan Eritrea has yet to start vaccinating its citizens against COVID-19, whereas two African countries – South Africa and Tunisia – are now offering citizens over 50 a second COVID-19 booster vaccine. However, but the vaccination rate on the continent is far behind the global vaccination target of 70%. Dr Ahmed Ogwell Ouma, Acting Director of […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Monkeypox: Africa CDC Demands Equal Treatment in Global Allocation of Limited Vaccine Doses 16/06/2022 Paul Adepoju Rich countries are rushing to get doses – but African countries say they should get the vaccines first for a disease endemic to the continent. A plan by the World Health Organization (WHO) to create a vaccine sharing mechanism that will attempt to provide equitable access to vaccines effective against monkeypox disease will only be […] Continue reading -> Spanish COVID-19 Antibody Test to be Manufactured by Biotech Africa Under Open License Agreement with WHO’s C-TAP 16/06/2022 Raisa Santos A new sublicense agreement for a COVID-19 antibody test has been announced Thursday by the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) on behalf of the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP) and South African company Biotech Africa. The new agreement builds on the first non-exclusive licensing agreement announced by WHO and MPP last year with […] Continue reading -> Protecting Children: 10 Years of Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention 16/06/2022 Andre-Marie Tchouatieu & Abena Poku-Awuku On the Day of the African Child, Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) reflects on what 10 years of seasonal malaria chemoprevention has meant for young children in the Sahel, and how to protect more children going forward. Malaria, a disease that is both a cause and consequence of poverty, has plagued endemic-country health systems, economies […] Continue reading -> WTO Ministerial Conference Extended for Another Day as Pressure Builds for Results 15/06/2022 John Heilprin & Elaine Ruth Fletcher The World Trade Organization (WTO) is extending its 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) for a fifth day, buying time for delegates to negotiate some tough deals in five main areas: the pandemic response, COVID-19 vaccines, fishing subsidies, food shortages and agriculture. The long-delayed ministerial conference, which opened on Sunday and was originally planned to close on […] Continue reading -> Pyrrhic Victory if WTO Agrees to Patent Waiver for COVID-19 Vaccines 14/06/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher After nearly 18 months of debate, World Trade Organization (WTO) members now appear likely to approve a limited waiver of patent rights on COVID-19 vaccines in their closing session on Wednesday. But if the current draft text is approved as it stands, it may be a pyrrhic victory for the medicines access groups that fought […] Continue reading -> Tedros Convenes WHO Emergency Committee to Discuss Monkeypox Outbreak 14/06/2022 Kerry Cullinan Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), has called a meeting of the emergency committee for next Thursday to discuss whether monkeypox should be declared a public health emergency. This follows the spread of the disease in at least 32 new countries outside of the nine African countries where it is […] Continue reading -> WTO Opens with Note of ‘Cautious Optimism’ on Prospects for Agreement over Fisheries Subsidies and COVID Vaccine IP Waiver 12/06/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher The World Trade Organization’s Director General Dr Ngozi Okonjo Iweala said she was “cautiously optimistic” about the potential for WTO members to reach long-delayed agreements on issues such as a limited IP waiver for COVID vaccines as well as a decision to curb harmful fisheries subsidies that allow big industrial rigs to plunder the oceans […] Continue reading -> New WHO Report Affirms Need to Study SARS-CoV2 Lab Leak Theory – Alongside Spillover Narrative 10/06/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher The first report by the new WHO-convened expert group, Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO) has fanned the flames of controversy over evidence about whether a lab leak or a natural “spillover” of the virus from animals to humans was the most likely source from which the COVID pandemic emerged – […] Continue reading -> Eritrea Has Yet to Start COVID-19 Vaccinations as Most African Countries Lag Far Behind Global Targets 09/06/2022 Kerry Cullinan Eritrea has yet to start vaccinating its citizens against COVID-19, whereas two African countries – South Africa and Tunisia – are now offering citizens over 50 a second COVID-19 booster vaccine. However, but the vaccination rate on the continent is far behind the global vaccination target of 70%. Dr Ahmed Ogwell Ouma, Acting Director of […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Spanish COVID-19 Antibody Test to be Manufactured by Biotech Africa Under Open License Agreement with WHO’s C-TAP 16/06/2022 Raisa Santos A new sublicense agreement for a COVID-19 antibody test has been announced Thursday by the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) on behalf of the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP) and South African company Biotech Africa. The new agreement builds on the first non-exclusive licensing agreement announced by WHO and MPP last year with […] Continue reading -> Protecting Children: 10 Years of Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention 16/06/2022 Andre-Marie Tchouatieu & Abena Poku-Awuku On the Day of the African Child, Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) reflects on what 10 years of seasonal malaria chemoprevention has meant for young children in the Sahel, and how to protect more children going forward. Malaria, a disease that is both a cause and consequence of poverty, has plagued endemic-country health systems, economies […] Continue reading -> WTO Ministerial Conference Extended for Another Day as Pressure Builds for Results 15/06/2022 John Heilprin & Elaine Ruth Fletcher The World Trade Organization (WTO) is extending its 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) for a fifth day, buying time for delegates to negotiate some tough deals in five main areas: the pandemic response, COVID-19 vaccines, fishing subsidies, food shortages and agriculture. The long-delayed ministerial conference, which opened on Sunday and was originally planned to close on […] Continue reading -> Pyrrhic Victory if WTO Agrees to Patent Waiver for COVID-19 Vaccines 14/06/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher After nearly 18 months of debate, World Trade Organization (WTO) members now appear likely to approve a limited waiver of patent rights on COVID-19 vaccines in their closing session on Wednesday. But if the current draft text is approved as it stands, it may be a pyrrhic victory for the medicines access groups that fought […] Continue reading -> Tedros Convenes WHO Emergency Committee to Discuss Monkeypox Outbreak 14/06/2022 Kerry Cullinan Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), has called a meeting of the emergency committee for next Thursday to discuss whether monkeypox should be declared a public health emergency. This follows the spread of the disease in at least 32 new countries outside of the nine African countries where it is […] Continue reading -> WTO Opens with Note of ‘Cautious Optimism’ on Prospects for Agreement over Fisheries Subsidies and COVID Vaccine IP Waiver 12/06/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher The World Trade Organization’s Director General Dr Ngozi Okonjo Iweala said she was “cautiously optimistic” about the potential for WTO members to reach long-delayed agreements on issues such as a limited IP waiver for COVID vaccines as well as a decision to curb harmful fisheries subsidies that allow big industrial rigs to plunder the oceans […] Continue reading -> New WHO Report Affirms Need to Study SARS-CoV2 Lab Leak Theory – Alongside Spillover Narrative 10/06/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher The first report by the new WHO-convened expert group, Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO) has fanned the flames of controversy over evidence about whether a lab leak or a natural “spillover” of the virus from animals to humans was the most likely source from which the COVID pandemic emerged – […] Continue reading -> Eritrea Has Yet to Start COVID-19 Vaccinations as Most African Countries Lag Far Behind Global Targets 09/06/2022 Kerry Cullinan Eritrea has yet to start vaccinating its citizens against COVID-19, whereas two African countries – South Africa and Tunisia – are now offering citizens over 50 a second COVID-19 booster vaccine. However, but the vaccination rate on the continent is far behind the global vaccination target of 70%. Dr Ahmed Ogwell Ouma, Acting Director of […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Protecting Children: 10 Years of Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention 16/06/2022 Andre-Marie Tchouatieu & Abena Poku-Awuku On the Day of the African Child, Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) reflects on what 10 years of seasonal malaria chemoprevention has meant for young children in the Sahel, and how to protect more children going forward. Malaria, a disease that is both a cause and consequence of poverty, has plagued endemic-country health systems, economies […] Continue reading -> WTO Ministerial Conference Extended for Another Day as Pressure Builds for Results 15/06/2022 John Heilprin & Elaine Ruth Fletcher The World Trade Organization (WTO) is extending its 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) for a fifth day, buying time for delegates to negotiate some tough deals in five main areas: the pandemic response, COVID-19 vaccines, fishing subsidies, food shortages and agriculture. The long-delayed ministerial conference, which opened on Sunday and was originally planned to close on […] Continue reading -> Pyrrhic Victory if WTO Agrees to Patent Waiver for COVID-19 Vaccines 14/06/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher After nearly 18 months of debate, World Trade Organization (WTO) members now appear likely to approve a limited waiver of patent rights on COVID-19 vaccines in their closing session on Wednesday. But if the current draft text is approved as it stands, it may be a pyrrhic victory for the medicines access groups that fought […] Continue reading -> Tedros Convenes WHO Emergency Committee to Discuss Monkeypox Outbreak 14/06/2022 Kerry Cullinan Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), has called a meeting of the emergency committee for next Thursday to discuss whether monkeypox should be declared a public health emergency. This follows the spread of the disease in at least 32 new countries outside of the nine African countries where it is […] Continue reading -> WTO Opens with Note of ‘Cautious Optimism’ on Prospects for Agreement over Fisheries Subsidies and COVID Vaccine IP Waiver 12/06/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher The World Trade Organization’s Director General Dr Ngozi Okonjo Iweala said she was “cautiously optimistic” about the potential for WTO members to reach long-delayed agreements on issues such as a limited IP waiver for COVID vaccines as well as a decision to curb harmful fisheries subsidies that allow big industrial rigs to plunder the oceans […] Continue reading -> New WHO Report Affirms Need to Study SARS-CoV2 Lab Leak Theory – Alongside Spillover Narrative 10/06/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher The first report by the new WHO-convened expert group, Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO) has fanned the flames of controversy over evidence about whether a lab leak or a natural “spillover” of the virus from animals to humans was the most likely source from which the COVID pandemic emerged – […] Continue reading -> Eritrea Has Yet to Start COVID-19 Vaccinations as Most African Countries Lag Far Behind Global Targets 09/06/2022 Kerry Cullinan Eritrea has yet to start vaccinating its citizens against COVID-19, whereas two African countries – South Africa and Tunisia – are now offering citizens over 50 a second COVID-19 booster vaccine. However, but the vaccination rate on the continent is far behind the global vaccination target of 70%. Dr Ahmed Ogwell Ouma, Acting Director of […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
WTO Ministerial Conference Extended for Another Day as Pressure Builds for Results 15/06/2022 John Heilprin & Elaine Ruth Fletcher The World Trade Organization (WTO) is extending its 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) for a fifth day, buying time for delegates to negotiate some tough deals in five main areas: the pandemic response, COVID-19 vaccines, fishing subsidies, food shortages and agriculture. The long-delayed ministerial conference, which opened on Sunday and was originally planned to close on […] Continue reading -> Pyrrhic Victory if WTO Agrees to Patent Waiver for COVID-19 Vaccines 14/06/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher After nearly 18 months of debate, World Trade Organization (WTO) members now appear likely to approve a limited waiver of patent rights on COVID-19 vaccines in their closing session on Wednesday. But if the current draft text is approved as it stands, it may be a pyrrhic victory for the medicines access groups that fought […] Continue reading -> Tedros Convenes WHO Emergency Committee to Discuss Monkeypox Outbreak 14/06/2022 Kerry Cullinan Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), has called a meeting of the emergency committee for next Thursday to discuss whether monkeypox should be declared a public health emergency. This follows the spread of the disease in at least 32 new countries outside of the nine African countries where it is […] Continue reading -> WTO Opens with Note of ‘Cautious Optimism’ on Prospects for Agreement over Fisheries Subsidies and COVID Vaccine IP Waiver 12/06/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher The World Trade Organization’s Director General Dr Ngozi Okonjo Iweala said she was “cautiously optimistic” about the potential for WTO members to reach long-delayed agreements on issues such as a limited IP waiver for COVID vaccines as well as a decision to curb harmful fisheries subsidies that allow big industrial rigs to plunder the oceans […] Continue reading -> New WHO Report Affirms Need to Study SARS-CoV2 Lab Leak Theory – Alongside Spillover Narrative 10/06/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher The first report by the new WHO-convened expert group, Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO) has fanned the flames of controversy over evidence about whether a lab leak or a natural “spillover” of the virus from animals to humans was the most likely source from which the COVID pandemic emerged – […] Continue reading -> Eritrea Has Yet to Start COVID-19 Vaccinations as Most African Countries Lag Far Behind Global Targets 09/06/2022 Kerry Cullinan Eritrea has yet to start vaccinating its citizens against COVID-19, whereas two African countries – South Africa and Tunisia – are now offering citizens over 50 a second COVID-19 booster vaccine. However, but the vaccination rate on the continent is far behind the global vaccination target of 70%. Dr Ahmed Ogwell Ouma, Acting Director of […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Pyrrhic Victory if WTO Agrees to Patent Waiver for COVID-19 Vaccines 14/06/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher After nearly 18 months of debate, World Trade Organization (WTO) members now appear likely to approve a limited waiver of patent rights on COVID-19 vaccines in their closing session on Wednesday. But if the current draft text is approved as it stands, it may be a pyrrhic victory for the medicines access groups that fought […] Continue reading -> Tedros Convenes WHO Emergency Committee to Discuss Monkeypox Outbreak 14/06/2022 Kerry Cullinan Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), has called a meeting of the emergency committee for next Thursday to discuss whether monkeypox should be declared a public health emergency. This follows the spread of the disease in at least 32 new countries outside of the nine African countries where it is […] Continue reading -> WTO Opens with Note of ‘Cautious Optimism’ on Prospects for Agreement over Fisheries Subsidies and COVID Vaccine IP Waiver 12/06/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher The World Trade Organization’s Director General Dr Ngozi Okonjo Iweala said she was “cautiously optimistic” about the potential for WTO members to reach long-delayed agreements on issues such as a limited IP waiver for COVID vaccines as well as a decision to curb harmful fisheries subsidies that allow big industrial rigs to plunder the oceans […] Continue reading -> New WHO Report Affirms Need to Study SARS-CoV2 Lab Leak Theory – Alongside Spillover Narrative 10/06/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher The first report by the new WHO-convened expert group, Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO) has fanned the flames of controversy over evidence about whether a lab leak or a natural “spillover” of the virus from animals to humans was the most likely source from which the COVID pandemic emerged – […] Continue reading -> Eritrea Has Yet to Start COVID-19 Vaccinations as Most African Countries Lag Far Behind Global Targets 09/06/2022 Kerry Cullinan Eritrea has yet to start vaccinating its citizens against COVID-19, whereas two African countries – South Africa and Tunisia – are now offering citizens over 50 a second COVID-19 booster vaccine. However, but the vaccination rate on the continent is far behind the global vaccination target of 70%. Dr Ahmed Ogwell Ouma, Acting Director of […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Tedros Convenes WHO Emergency Committee to Discuss Monkeypox Outbreak 14/06/2022 Kerry Cullinan Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), has called a meeting of the emergency committee for next Thursday to discuss whether monkeypox should be declared a public health emergency. This follows the spread of the disease in at least 32 new countries outside of the nine African countries where it is […] Continue reading -> WTO Opens with Note of ‘Cautious Optimism’ on Prospects for Agreement over Fisheries Subsidies and COVID Vaccine IP Waiver 12/06/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher The World Trade Organization’s Director General Dr Ngozi Okonjo Iweala said she was “cautiously optimistic” about the potential for WTO members to reach long-delayed agreements on issues such as a limited IP waiver for COVID vaccines as well as a decision to curb harmful fisheries subsidies that allow big industrial rigs to plunder the oceans […] Continue reading -> New WHO Report Affirms Need to Study SARS-CoV2 Lab Leak Theory – Alongside Spillover Narrative 10/06/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher The first report by the new WHO-convened expert group, Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO) has fanned the flames of controversy over evidence about whether a lab leak or a natural “spillover” of the virus from animals to humans was the most likely source from which the COVID pandemic emerged – […] Continue reading -> Eritrea Has Yet to Start COVID-19 Vaccinations as Most African Countries Lag Far Behind Global Targets 09/06/2022 Kerry Cullinan Eritrea has yet to start vaccinating its citizens against COVID-19, whereas two African countries – South Africa and Tunisia – are now offering citizens over 50 a second COVID-19 booster vaccine. However, but the vaccination rate on the continent is far behind the global vaccination target of 70%. Dr Ahmed Ogwell Ouma, Acting Director of […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
WTO Opens with Note of ‘Cautious Optimism’ on Prospects for Agreement over Fisheries Subsidies and COVID Vaccine IP Waiver 12/06/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher The World Trade Organization’s Director General Dr Ngozi Okonjo Iweala said she was “cautiously optimistic” about the potential for WTO members to reach long-delayed agreements on issues such as a limited IP waiver for COVID vaccines as well as a decision to curb harmful fisheries subsidies that allow big industrial rigs to plunder the oceans […] Continue reading -> New WHO Report Affirms Need to Study SARS-CoV2 Lab Leak Theory – Alongside Spillover Narrative 10/06/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher The first report by the new WHO-convened expert group, Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO) has fanned the flames of controversy over evidence about whether a lab leak or a natural “spillover” of the virus from animals to humans was the most likely source from which the COVID pandemic emerged – […] Continue reading -> Eritrea Has Yet to Start COVID-19 Vaccinations as Most African Countries Lag Far Behind Global Targets 09/06/2022 Kerry Cullinan Eritrea has yet to start vaccinating its citizens against COVID-19, whereas two African countries – South Africa and Tunisia – are now offering citizens over 50 a second COVID-19 booster vaccine. However, but the vaccination rate on the continent is far behind the global vaccination target of 70%. Dr Ahmed Ogwell Ouma, Acting Director of […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
New WHO Report Affirms Need to Study SARS-CoV2 Lab Leak Theory – Alongside Spillover Narrative 10/06/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher The first report by the new WHO-convened expert group, Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO) has fanned the flames of controversy over evidence about whether a lab leak or a natural “spillover” of the virus from animals to humans was the most likely source from which the COVID pandemic emerged – […] Continue reading -> Eritrea Has Yet to Start COVID-19 Vaccinations as Most African Countries Lag Far Behind Global Targets 09/06/2022 Kerry Cullinan Eritrea has yet to start vaccinating its citizens against COVID-19, whereas two African countries – South Africa and Tunisia – are now offering citizens over 50 a second COVID-19 booster vaccine. However, but the vaccination rate on the continent is far behind the global vaccination target of 70%. Dr Ahmed Ogwell Ouma, Acting Director of […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Eritrea Has Yet to Start COVID-19 Vaccinations as Most African Countries Lag Far Behind Global Targets 09/06/2022 Kerry Cullinan Eritrea has yet to start vaccinating its citizens against COVID-19, whereas two African countries – South Africa and Tunisia – are now offering citizens over 50 a second COVID-19 booster vaccine. However, but the vaccination rate on the continent is far behind the global vaccination target of 70%. Dr Ahmed Ogwell Ouma, Acting Director of […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts