The African Union has set a target for 60 percent of vaccines used on the continent to be produced locally by 2040, aiming to ...

A new fund that aims to prevent 300,000 health-related avoidable deaths in Africa has been launched with the support of a ...

Sierra Leone, West Africa, is emerging as the new epicenter of the "MPOX" (formerly known as monkeypox).If you get Empox, an ...

Vaccines save lives--yet systemic barriers continue to leave millions of children across Africa unprotected from preventable diseasesAddis Ababa, Ethiopia, April 30, 2025 - Despite the proven power of ...

A panel of public health experts will convene in May 2025 to evaluate whether mpox should continue to be classified as a ...

Sierra Leone accounted for half of Africa's confirmed mpox cases this week, the continent's main health body said on Thursday, adding that the West African country was fuelling the outbreak. Mpox is a ...

Vaccine-preventable diseases cost African countries a staggering USD 13 billion each year in direct and indirect expenses.

Sierra Leone reported its first mpox cases in January, and activity is now skyrocketing, so much so that the Africa Centers ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) and Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) have today announced a sublicensing agreement between MPP and a Nigerian health technology company – Codix Bio – to start ...