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Campagne de vaccination en milieu carcéral : 173 détenus ont été vaccinés à la maison centrale d'Antanimora Format A l'initiative du ministère de la Justice, en partenariat avec le Programme des Nations Unies pour le Développement (PNUD), le Fonds des Nations Unies pour la Consolidation de la Paix (PBF), le Fonds des Nations Unies pour l'Enfance (UNICEF) et l'Organisation Mondiale de la Santé (OMS), une campagne de vaccination au covishield s'est tenue ce mercredi à la Maison Centrale d'Antanimora. Cette initiative a été organisée en tenant compte du principe "ne laisser personne...

GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Forty years on since the first AIDS cases were reported, the Un...

GENEVA: Forty years on since the first AIDS cases were reported, the United Nations said on Thursday it was cautiously optimistic that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) — the virus that causes the disease — could be beaten by 2030. The UNAIDS agency said at least 40 countries were on track to achieve a 90-percent drop in AIDS-related mortality by 2030, including nine countries in eastern and southern Africa. In a report, the Joint UN Programme on HIV and AIDS said that 37.6 million people worldwide were living with HIV in 2020. Of those, 27.4 million were receiving treatment — more...

While some of the world’s largest vaccine makers have committed to increase COVID-19 vaccine access to middle and low-income countries, there remains uncertainty over patent waivers.

Moderna and vaccine promoter Gavi have announced a firm deal by which the pharmaceutical company will provide up to 500 million doses for the UN-backed program to ship coronavirus vaccines to needy people in low- and middle-income countries by the end of 2022. The advance purchase agreement announced on Monday comes just days after the World Health Organisation, after weeks of delays, announced emergency approval for the Moderna vaccine that will pave the way for its rollout in the UN-backed COVAX program. However, deliveries are not set to begin until the fourth quarter of this year, and ...