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Kenya's Health Ministry on Wednesday launched a 10-day cholera vaccination drive to combat cholera outbreak which has claimed 196 lives in the last 10 months. Mary Muriuki, Principal Secretary of the State Department of Public Health and Professional Standards in the ministry, said in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya that…

Zambia on Friday assumed the chairmanship of a regional bloc that will spearhead the fight and elimination of malaria in the southern African region. Zambia has taken over the chairmanship of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) on Malaria Elimination 8 (E8) from South Africa, according to a statement from…

Health authorities in Zambia on Monday revealed that over 320,000 children in the country missed primary vaccinations against childhood diseases at six weeks old in 2022. Jacob Sakala, manager of expanded program on immunization in the Ministry of Health, said it was saddening to see the backsliding of child immunizations,…

Malawi is set to embark on a countrywide integrated Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine (TCV), Measles-Rubella (MR), and Polio Supplemental Immunization campaign from May 15 to 21, health authorities have announced. A statement released Wednesday signed by the country's Secretary for Health, Samson Mndolo, said the ministry will also conduct the Vitamin…

New COVID-19 cases are rising again in Botswana, even as the southern African country banks on vaccinations to prevent another round of restrictions, an official said Friday. Over the past month, Botswana's positivity rate has risen from zero to an average of 11.2 percent, the level that the World Health…

Ghana has covered at least 400,000 children in phase one of the pilot Malaria Vaccine Implementation Program (MVIP), said an official on Thursday.l Kwame Amponsa-Achiano, manager for the Expanded Program on Immunization at the Ghana Health Service (GHS), disclosed this at a press briefing on the MVIP, which began to…

The United States is calling on North Korea to work with the international community to conduct a rapid COVID-19 vaccination campaign in the country, State Department principal deputy spokesman Vedant Patel said on Thursday. "We are very concerned about how COVID-19 could affect the North Korean people, and we continue…

A senior Zambian government official said Thursday that the country may not attain the 70 percent COVID-19 vaccination target of its eligible population by July this year. Lackson Kasonka, the permanent secretary of the Ministry of Health, said this was because people were still shunning the vaccine despite vigorous campaigns.…

Angola has been working to rein in rising malaria cases and related deaths. Luanda, the Angolan capital, registered 361,944 cases of malaria in the last three months, with 858 deaths, representing 161,850 more cases and 294 more deaths compared to the same period in 2021, the provincial supervisor of the…

Namibia's Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS) will operationalize the issuance of COVID-19 digital vaccination certificates in less than two weeks, a government official said Tuesday. The move by Namibia follows the recent announcement by the South African government that travellers to South Africa are required to present digital…