Quick Start Consortium News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

The country struggles with low DPT vaccination levels, especially in the outbreak area.

Ensuring rapid and equitable access to effective oral COVID-19 therapies is essential to reducing health disparities from COVID-19 and building a better response system for future epidemics and pandemics. A multipronged strategy for medical countermeasures must include antivirals, monoclonal antibodies, and other mechanisms to fight infections. Better strategies to deploy oral antivirals, which have been important in the context of COVID-19, will also help to prepare the system to deploy medical countermeasures at a large scale in future outbreaks.

Nine African countries will benefit from an initiative launched by international donors on Wednesday to boost access to COVID-19 therapeutics. The nine countries are Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Supported by philanthropists and global health research entities, the project will ensure that high-risk demographics…

A new initiative to introduce COVID-19 oral antivirals and national test-and-treat programmes in 10 countries in Africa and Southeast Asia was launched on