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GHS administers 290,000 cholera vaccines in first two days in W/R
The Western Regional Directorate of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has so far administered about 290,000 doses of cholera vaccines out of a targeted...
UNICEF issues emergency tender to secure mpox vaccines
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has issued an emergency tender to secure mpox vaccines for crisis-hit countries in collaboration with the Gavi vaccine...
Here is what the experts are saying about the new COVID-19 vaccines
Newly updated vaccines against Covid-19 will be in pharmacies soon, just as the US is experiencing a surge of infections. But is it a...
COVID-19 vaccines not for free – Finance Ministry justifies Covid levy imposition
The Minister of State at the Finance Ministry, Abena Osei Asare, has argued that the government will continue collecting the COVID-19 recovery levy to...
Saving lives in northwest Nigeria with the new MenFive vaccines
It was around 10 am when 55-year-old Usman Alasan, with his megaphone got to the nomadic settlement of Dongawaki, located at Sule Tankarkar Local...
World veterinary Day: UK govt donates rabies vaccines and lab consumables to MoFA
The UK government through its Animal Health System Strengthening (AHSS) project, has donated fifteen thousand (15,000) doses of rabies vaccines and laboratory equipment and...
Sierra Leone takes a bold new step towards broader vaccination against malaria by receiving...
Shipment of the world’s first WHO-recommended malaria vaccine, RTS, S, procured by UNICEF with the support of Gavi, arrived in Sierra Leone on Friday....
Oti Region vet director calls for free rabies vaccines
The Regional Veterinary Director for Oti Region, Dr. Patrick Akandi Agbodzi has pleaded with the government and development partners for assistance in making vaccines...
FDA Ghana designated as Regional Centre of Excellence for Vaccines Regulatory Oversight in Africa
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) in Ghana has been designated as a Regional Center of Excellence for Vaccine Regulatory Oversight in Africa.This was...
Bawku: Veterinary Service laments lack of anthrax vaccines
The District Director of the Veterinary Service at Bawku, Bonaventure Chiru, is lamenting the absence of vaccines to fight the deadly anthrax disease as...
Ministry of Health takes delivery of 500K measles vaccines
The Ministry for Health has taken delivery of 500,000 measles rubella immunisation vaccines.The sector Minister, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, led a delegation to receive the consignment at...
Child vaccines: Ministry of Health sends SoS message to Ghanaians [Listen]
JoyNews/AdomNews · Ministry Of Health On Child VaccinesThe Ministry of Health (MoH) has urged calm among Ghanaians over the supply of child immunisation vaccines...
Ghana receives first consignment of child vaccines
The Ministry of Health and the Ghana Health Service has taken delivery of the first consignment of child immunisation vaccines.They include the Bacillus Calmette–Guérin...
Akandoh takes on govt over shortage of child vaccines
Ranking member on the Health Committee of Parliament has blamed the shortage of child immunisation vaccines in the country on the incompetence of the...
Childhood killer diseases: Vaccines coming in 3 weeks – Health Minister
The Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyeman Manu, has assured the nation that steps are being taken for the country to take delivery of children's...
SONA 2023: Akufo-Addo reacts to shortage of baby vaccines
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has expressed concern over the shortage of childhood vaccines in the country.The President, delivering the state of the Nation...
Govt moves to deliver vaccines
The government is deploying all efforts and resources to fast-track the delivery of the routine child immunisation vaccines that are in short supply in...
Use Independence Day cash to buy vaccines for children – Mahama
Former President John Dramani Mahama has urged President Nana Akufo-Addo to sacrifice funds being used to organize this year’s Independence Day celebration to fix...
Over 100 measles cases recorded in northern Ghana as babies vaccines shortage bite
Over 100 children in the northern part of Ghana are suspected to have contracted measles.This is according to the President-elect for the Paediatrics...
Measles vaccines to arrive in Ghana within 2 weeks
The Majority Chief Whip in Parliament, Frank Annoh-Dompreh, says the country will take stock of some measles vaccines from the United Nations Children’s Fund...
Health Minister to appear before Parliamentary Committee over vaccines shortage
A Ranking Member of the Health Committee of Parliament, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, has expressed his displeasure over shortage of vaccines for infants.He indicated...
COVID-19: $81m worth of vaccines paid for not delivered – Auditor-General’s report
The Auditor-General has reported that $81m worth of vaccines paid for by government has not been delivered. According to the A-G, government paid over $120m...
42% of Covid-19 vaccines supplied to Volta Region gone waste – GHS
About 42% of the over 2.1 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines supplied to the Volta Region have gone waste due to high hesitancy. Statistics from...
No HIV in COVID vaccines; Ghana’s spiking HIV rate nothing to do with pandemic...
A senior research fellow at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), Dr Isaac Darko Okyere, has refuted claims that HIV proteins were...
Uganda rejects compulsory adult vaccines
A proposed new law to make vaccines compulsory for all adults in the event of a mass disease outbreak has been rejected by Uganda's...
Demand of monkeypox vaccines outstrips supply
US health officials say they do not have enough monkeypox vaccines to cope with surging demand.The US has seen more than 1,800 cases so...
Monkeypox vaccines outlined by the White House
The White House is planning to ship thousands of monkeypox vaccines to states as part of a growing federal campaign to halt the outbreak.Officials...
Covid-19: Ghanaian pharmaceutical companies to distribute vaccines produced in Africa
President Nana Akufo-Addo has announced Ghana has set up a consortium for Covid-19 vaccines to be produced by German manufacturing giant, BioNTech.This, he said...
WHO to share vaccines to stop monkeypox amid inequity fears
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said it’s creating a new vaccine-sharing mechanism to stop the outbreak of monkeypox in more than 30 countries beyond...
WAHO selects 5 firms to manufacture vaccines for ECOWAS countries
The West African Health Organisation (WAHO), an organ of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), is working with five potential vaccine manufacturers...
FDA boosts efforts to ensure safety of Covid-19 vaccines
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), has outlined comprehensive safety monitoring measures to ensure that all Covid-19 vaccines deployed in Ghana are safe for...
US Army donates boxes of anti-snake vaccines, other drugs to Savannah Region
The US Army, in collaboration with the Savannah regional Queen mother's Association, has donated 130 boxes of anti-snake vaccines and other drugs to three...
Ghana, Rwanda, Senegal partner Biotech to produce COVID-19, TB and Malaria vaccines
Ghana, Rwanda and Senegal are partnering with German biotechnology company, BioNTech SE, to fill, finish, and package BioNTech mRNA vaccines in Africa, as a...
US donates 560,000 vaccines to Ghana
The United States has shipped more than 560,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to the West African nation of Ghana, the White House told...
Covid-19 vaccines are efficacious – GMA schools Concerned Ghanaian Doctors
The Deputy General Secretary of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), Dr. Titus Beyuo has reiterated that data gathered by health authorities show that the...
FDA denied my request for certified reports on adverse events of covid-19 vaccines –...
The Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi, says the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has denied his request for certified...
Covid-19: 12,780 expired vaccines destroyed in Volta Region
A total of 12,780 doses of various COVID-19 vaccines which were found to have expired in November have been destroyed by the Volta Regional...
Covid vaccines safe; it’ll not cause you to vote for NPP – Akufo-Addo
President Nana Akufo-Addo has urged Ghanaians to disregard certain misinformation concerning the covid-19 vaccine.According to him, the vaccines are safe and do not cause...
COVID-19: Large quantities of vaccines expired in Volta Region – GHS
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has confirmed that large quantities of vaccines dispatched to the Volta Region expired due to vaccination hesitancy among the...
Make Covid-19 vaccines available to all parts of the world – Akufo-Addo to EU
President Nana Akufo-Addo says he is “a firm believer in the statement that ‘no one is safe until everyone is safe'”.He is calling for...