Leaders on the continent have vowed that if there is another pandemic, they won’t be shut out of the vaccine market. By Stephanie Nolen Just 3 percent of all Covid-19 vaccine doses delivered in 2021 went to Africa, home to a fifth of the world’s population, according to the World Health Organization. In the vast debacle of global vaccine…
Summary The World Health Organisation has declared the country the best performer in the Covid-19 Vaccine Delivery Partnership among 34 African nations whose vaccination rates were below 10 percent by January 2022 Dar es Salaam. Until early 2021, Tanzania was a Covid-19 denier, but two years later, the World Health Organisation (WHO) now ranks the country as the best…
Summary A total of 212 people who were suspected to have contacts with the patients were so far traced and 35 of them have already been released Dar es Salaam. One patient among those diagnosed with Marburg virus in Kagera region was discharged yesterday, making him the first recovered case from the killer disease that was reported last month….
Two-and-a-half billion dollars: that’s how much funding the UN World Health Organization (WHO) will need across its operations this year, it said on Monday, to help a record number of people facing disease and starvation. In its appeal, the WHO said that a staggering 339 million people now need humanitarian assistance globally. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the UN agency’s Director-General,…