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Panama City, Nov 30 (Prensa Latina) Panama registered 6,435 new cases of Covid-19 in the last epidemiological week and accumulates 1,200,161 cases since the disease was detected in March 2020. According to the latest report of the Ministry of Health (Minsa), from November 20 to 26, seven deaths were reported for a total of 8,526 deaths in a little more than two years of this disease.
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…
Ghana covers 400,000 children in pilot malaria vaccination-
Perennial malaria chemoprevention (PMC) is newly formulated strategy endorsed in June 2022 by the World Health Organization and builds off the previously recommended but poorly implemented strategy of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in infants – IPTi. IPTi – the provision of single dose Sulphadoxine Pyrimethamine (SP) delivered through the Expanded Program of Immunization (EPI) at times of childhood immunisation at approximately 3, 4 and 9 months of age was shown to provide infants with protection against malaria, anaemia and all cause hospital admissions.
Government has challenged chiefs to champion cleanup campaigns as a way of controlling the Cholera outbreak in the country. Minister of Local governme...