Health

Health minister Kalumbi Shangula said on Thursday that the vaccines will be distributed over the weekend, which means that vaccinations will resume countrywide on Monday, 19 July. “We expect...

"Pledges of doses and funds are welcome -- but they are not enough. We need at least 11 billion doses to vaccinate 70 percent of the world and end this...

KAMPALA -- Washington's continued contradiction in the global fight against COVID-19 undermines efforts to eradicate the disease that is causing havoc in many countries, a Ugandan foreign policy analyst has...

As the continent battles COVID-19 cases fueled by the highly transmissible Delta variant amid low vaccine rates, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has urged African countries to...

After enduring a long, meandering COVID-19 vaccination queue at Parirenyatwa Hospital, a major public hospital in Harare, capital of Zimbabwe, Rufaro Muchirahondo heaved a sigh of relief. The 47-year-old teacher...

COVAX was built on the principle of equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines to protect the health of people all across the globe. That means protecting their lives and livelihoods, including...

Police in Uganda have arrested two nurses and were hunting for a man who had posed as a doctor to sell and administer fake coronavirus vaccines to hundreds of people, authorities in...

Africa is not on track to meet the Sustainable Development Goal target which aims to end hunger and ensure access by all people to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all...

The procurement of the 500,000 doses of the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine, an inactivated vaccine called SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine (Vero Cell), is part of the local initiative "United for the vaccine against...

Geneva/Johannesburg/Paris: The World Health Organization (WHO) and its COVAX partners are working with a South African consortium comprising Biovac, Afrigen Biologics and Vaccines, a network of universities and the Africa Centres for...