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Ghana To Receive 200,000 COVID-19 Vaccine Doses
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DRC to return AstraZeneca vaccines to Unicef
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Ghana is expected to receive another consignment of over 200,000 doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in May this year.
The UNICEF’s Regional Advisor for Health Systems Strengthening for Western and Central Africa Regional Office, Ms Susie Villeneuve, disclosed this, explaining that the vaccine would be shipped from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to Ghana, Togo and the Comoros.
She said the development was because the DRC did not have the needed systems and structures to use the AstraZeneca doses it received under the global access (COVAX) facility.
At a panel discussion at this year’s African Vaccination Week (AVW) launch in Accra on Monday, April 26, 2021, Ms Villeneuve explained that the decision to ship the vaccines from DRC
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More than 1.3 million AstraZeneca vaccines delivered to the Democratic Republic of Congo on March 4, 2021, are to be re-distributed to Ghana and five other African countries.
The Central African country is the second largest country in Africa (by area) and 11th in the world, with a population of 86.79 million (World Bank, 2019).
But it has only been able to administer a mere 400,000 of the 1.7 million it received.
The remaining 1.3 million doses will expire next month if unused.
UNICEF is currently leading the largest vaccine procurement and supply operation ever on behalf of the global COVAX facility, to deliver Covid-19 vaccines across Africa.
27 Apr 2021
FHI 360/Philippines (www.fhi360.org) is looking for iNTP Area Coordinator to perform a short-term work engagement for USAID-funded “TB Innovations and Health Systems Strengthening” project in the Philippines.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
The “TB Innovations and Health Systems Strengthening” (TBIHSS) project is a 5-year USAID funded project that aims to strengthen national and regional level implementation of the National TB Strategic Plan by providing state-of-the-art capacity building and technical expertise to scale-up TB and DR-TB prevention, detection, and treatment.
USAID’s TBIHSS will lead the implementation of introducing new Tools Project (iNTP) in the Philippines, a joint-initiative of STOP-TB and USAID, which aims to programmatically embed innovative tools throughout the TB cascade of care. Aligned with country’s strategic plan to End-TB, this activity will implement proven approaches to improve TB prevention, increase TB case detection rates, decrease d
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