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FDA allays concerns over AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine safety in Ghana
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...
The African Union – Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR) and African Union Pan...
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...
Ghana: Enhancing capacity for malaria vaccine introduction and rollout in Africa through experience sharing
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...
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...
AstraZeneca withdraws Covid vaccine worldwide after admitting it can cause rare blood clots
AstraZeneca is withdrawing its highly successful coronavirus vaccine, citing the availability of a plethora of new shots that has led to a decline in...
British man tests first personalised skin cancer vaccine
An important trial of the world's first "personalised" mRNA vaccine against the deadliest form of skin cancer - melanoma - is now under way...
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...
National Media Vaccine Network launched to boost vaccine uptake in Ghana
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...
International Vaccine Institute (IVI) Launches New Country and Project Office in Kenya to Lead...
The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) has announced the opening of a new Country and Project Office in Kenya, marking a significant step in the...
Global cholera vaccine stockpile runs empty as 16 countries report outbreaks
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...
Ghana: United States (U.S.) Provides $2 Million to Construct a New National Vaccine Cold...
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 vaccinated as malaria vaccine rollout in Africa expands
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...
Hope for Ghanaians with life-threatening non-typhoidal diseases as KNUST scientists begin clinical trial of...
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 kicks off malaria vaccine rollout
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...
Vaccine shortage: Govt must not fail to honor financing obligation under Gavi vaccine initiative
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...
EU commits 32 million euros to vaccine production in Ghana
The European Union (EU) has committed EUR 32 million to boost vaccine production in Ghana under the Manufacturing and Access to Vaccines, Medicines 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....
Kenya: Health Secretary Engages International Vaccine Institute Leaders at World Bio Summit
During the World Bio Summit in Seoul, Health Cabinet Secretary Nakhumicha S. Wafula engaged with the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) leadership, led by the...
Ethiopia: Close to 1.9 million receive the Cholera vaccine despite challenging environment in Amhara...
The Amhara region is the 2nd most populated region in Ethiopia. The region currently faces multiple emergencies including drought, Measles, Malaria, and a Cholera...
World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance...
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...
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...
New hope as trial of HIV vaccine begins
US state research agency, National Institutes of Health (NIH), has announced the first phase of trial of a preventive HIV vaccine candidate has commenced...
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...
Expedite action on local vaccine production – Akufo-Addo to National Vaccine Institute
President Nana Akufo-Addo has charged the National Vaccine Institute (NVI) to work to bring to fruition the vision of developing and manufacturing vaccines locally.
He...
Ghana first to approve Oxford’s malaria vaccine
Ghana has become the first country in the world to approve a new malaria vaccine from Oxford University, with children under the age of...
Ghana first to approve ‘world-changer’ malaria vaccine
Ghana is the first country to approve a new malaria vaccine that has been described as a “world-changer” by the scientists who developed it....
ECG disconnects power to Keta vaccine storage – Medicines risk going waste
Vaccines for routine immunisation, including new deliveries received last week, risk going waste at the Keta Municipal Health Directorate because the Electricity Company of...
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 Vaccines
The 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...
Health Ministry moves to renegotiate COVID-19 vaccine contract
The Ministry of Health has given an assurance that efforts are being made to renegotiate the vaccine acquisition contract with the African Vaccine Acquisition...