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The issue of the “ still missed children” has been a prime concern for the World Health Organisation.

"Since most countries in the region (98%) are familiar with the deployment of the ODK [Open Data Kit] tool from its use in polio eradication, the COVID-19 contact tracing app is quite easy for countries to deploy and use without extensive training."

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As the country grapples with coronavirus, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has revealed that over 127,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered as of Monday, February 28, 2022. | Pulse Ghana

Hundreds of people turned out in various communities to take the yellow fever jabs to protect them against the disease. A visit to some of the vaccination centres in the Bole District of the Savannah Region showed winding queues of both old and young people waiting for their turn to…

President Muhammadu Buhari says steady progress is being made in achieving the targets set out in Nigeria’s Strategy for Immunization and Primary Health Care System Strengthening.

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KARACHI: The provincial Expanded Programme on Immunization , under the supervision of Sindh health department and with the support of National...

Researching a water-borne disease in the middle of the Sahara desert might not seem the most relevant concern. However, nomadic Sahelian pastoralists health concerns regarding their livestock and anecdotal reports about trematode infections of Fasciola spp. and Schistosoma spp. in desert-raised animals justified an exploratory study focusing on the lakes of Ounianga in Northern Chad. The aim was to test whether trematode parasites such as Schistosoma spp. occur in human populations living around...