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

Sierra Leone, which declared mpox a public health emergency in January, has seen a 63 percent jump in confirmed cases in just ...

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

Despite the proven power of vaccines to save lives, over 500,000 children under five in Africa continue to die each year from ...

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 ...

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) commends the Republic of Uganda for officially declaring the end of its eighth outbreak of Sudan Ebola Virus Disease (SVD).

The announcement follows a high-level meeting with Dr. Jean Kaseya, Director General of Africa CDC, on 21 April 2025 in Luanda. Dr. Kaseya hailed the pledge as a bold and historic commitment ...

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 ...