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The Piolot of Johnson & Johnson Flight that brought in first batch of the EVD vaccine formally hading over the consignment to the WHO Representative in Sierra Leone at the Lungi International Airport

Sierra Leone receives initial Ebola vaccine supply to bolster prevention

Freetown, 10 April 2021 – Sierra Leone today received the first batch…
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COVID_19 Update Rwanda

Update COVID-19 08 April 2021

08 April 2021 — One hundred and eleven (111) new COVID-19 cases were…
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Greater Lobatse DHMT Participants during the RRT Training

Greater Lobatse District Health Management Team Undergoes Rapid Response Training

Lobatse, Botswana – 17 March 2021  The World Health Organization (…
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Less than 2% of world’s COVID-19 vaccines administered in Africa

Less than 2% of world’s COVID-19 vaccines administered in Africa

Brazzaville – Less than 2% of the 690 million COVID-19 vaccine doses…
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COVID-19 vaccination launching in Rwanda_ 03_03_2021

Rolling out COVID-19 vaccines in Rwanda

Kigali – Forty-eight hours after Rwanda received shipments of COVID-…
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Less than 2% of world’s COVID-19 vaccines administered in Africa

Less than 2% of world’s COVID-19 vaccines administered in Africa

Brazzaville – Less than 2% of the 690 million COVID-19 vaccine doses…
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Health Minister, Dr. Jallah vaccinating first child during the TCV launch in Monrovia

Liberia becomes the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to introduce Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine (TCV): Over 1 million children to be reached

Monrovia, 6th April 2021: The Ministry of Health and partners on 6th…
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WHO Rep. Desta Tiruneh, giving the keynote address

Government and Stakeholder Take Stock of The Gambia’s COVID-19 Response

The Ministry of Health (MoH) and its stakeholders are conducted a…
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COVID_19 Update Rwanda

Update COVID-19 07 April 2021

07 April 2021 — One hundred, and seventy-night (179) new COVID-19…
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Clara Magalasi, from rural Lilongwe, Malawi, walked 4 kilometers to ensure her daughter Grace, age 22 months, received her 4th and final dose of the malaria vaccine – the 4-dose regimen provides optimal malaria prevention benefits as a complementary malaria control tool.

The Malaria Vaccine Pilot Implementation Programme two years on in Malawi - Increasing equity to malaria prevention through vaccination 7 April 2021, World Health Day

Clara Magalasi, who lives in a rural village near Lilongwe, the…
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