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President John Mahama has appointed Dr. Sodzi Sodzi-Tettey as the Acting Chief Executive Officer of the National Vaccine Institute (NVI), pending confirmation by the...

The Member of Parliament for Fanteakwa South, Duke Ofori-Atta, has called for a proactive approach to addressing health crises that threaten economic stability. He stressed...

A month after an Ebola outbreak struck Uganda in September 2022, Edward Kayiwa began feeling unwell: headaches, fever and muscle pain.He knew something was...

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...

The founder and CEO of Sunyani-based Global Media Foundation (GloMeF), an anti-corruption Non-Governmental Organisation, has expressed worry about low coverage of Hepatitis B Birth...

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...

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...

The Regional Director of Health Service for the Volta Region, Dr Chrysantus Kubio, has called for urgent action to address gaps in routine immunisation and...

Emergent BioSolutions said on Monday it would donate 50,000 doses of its smallpox vaccine to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other impacted countries...

Travellers should consider getting vaccinated against Mpox if they will be visting affected areas in Africa, new advice says.The European Centre for Disease Prevention...

The Minister of Health, Bernard Okoe Boye, led a delegation to South Africa on Monday, August 12, for a strategic fact-finding mission aimed at...

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...

To catch up with the unvaccinated (zero-dose), and under-vaccinated children, the Ministry of Health with support from the World Health Organisation, (WHO) implemented a...

The European Union (EU) has awarded a grant of €32 million to support vaccine manufacturing and the pharmaceutical industry in Ghana.The grant was made...

On 5 May 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the end of the COVID-19 global health emergency, but efforts to fight the virus...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has emphasised the critical need for accelerated and sustainable vaccine production in Africa.Speaking at the Global Forum for Vaccine Sovereignty and...

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has called for the manufacturing of more Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) vaccine doses in order to deal with the...

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has reaffirmed its commitment to monitoring the safety of all vaccines used in Ghana, including COVID-19 vaccines.The FDA...

On May 17, 2024, AU-IBAR and the African Union Pan African Veterinary Vaccine Centre (AU-PANVAC) held an inter-coordination meeting at the AU-IBAR. The primary...

Since 2019, Ghana, Kenya and Malawi have been rolling out malaria vaccines, with over 2.5 million children already receiving at least one dose of...

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...

AstraZeneca is withdrawing its highly successful coronavirus vaccine, citing the availability of a plethora of new shots that has led to a decline in...

An important trial of the world's first "personalised" mRNA vaccine against the deadliest form of skin cancer - melanoma - is now under way...

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...

In a concerted effort to combat misinformation and promote vaccine uptake across Ghana, the National Media Vaccine Network has been officially launched in Accra.Spearheaded...

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) has announced the opening of a new Country and Project Office in Kenya, marking a significant step in the...

The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is extremely concerned about a recent announcement that the global cholera vaccine stockpile has been exhausted. As...

The United States Government through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is providing $2 million (24.8 million Ghana Cedis) to construct a...

Nearly 10 000 children in Burkina Faso and Cameroon have now received the RTS,S malaria vaccine since being introduced this year. A wider malaria...

Ghanaians battling with life-threatening Non-Typhoidal diseases can rest easier as scientists from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have commenced a...

Cameroon today launched the RTS,S malaria vaccine into its routine national immunization services, becoming the first country to do so outside the malaria vaccine...

Ghana’s vaccination and immunization against the six childhood killer diseases could face a major setback this year if the government fails to meet its...

The European Union (EU) has committed EUR 32 million to boost vaccine production in Ghana under the Manufacturing and Access to Vaccines, Medicines and...

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....

During the World Bio Summit in Seoul, Health Cabinet Secretary Nakhumicha S. Wafula engaged with the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) leadership, led by the...

The Amhara region is the 2nd most populated region in Ethiopia. The region currently faces multiple emergencies including drought, Measles, Malaria, and a Cholera...

Following devastating outbreaks in Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2016 that saw exportation of cases to China, the EYE Strategy  –  a...

The Regional Veterinary Director for Oti Region, Dr. Patrick Akandi Agbodzi has pleaded with the government and development partners for assistance in making vaccines...

US state research agency, National Institutes of Health (NIH), has announced the first phase of trial of a preventive HIV vaccine candidate has commenced...

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...