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…