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Hexavalent, six-in-one vaccine can reduce spread of the disease and cut costs ANALYSIS | ESTHER NAKKAZI | Pertussis, or whooping cough, is a preventable disease, yet it still kills more than 150,000 children under five every year – most of them in low- and middle-income countries. Also known as the 100-day …

KAMPALA, UGANDA | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has called on African countries to collaborate in vaccine manufacturing to prevent a recurrence of the COVID-19 vaccine hoarding that left many nations vulnerable. Speaking at the opening of the Africa Special Convention on Diagnostics on Tuesday, Health Ministry Permanent Secretary …

ANALYSIS | AGENCIES | Rwandan health authorities will begin a vaccine study against the Marburg hemorrhagic fever, officials said Sunday, as the East African country tries to stop the spread of an outbreak that has killed 12 people. Rwanda, which received 700 doses of a vaccine under trial from the U.S.-based …

The decision is a crucial step in getting shots to the Democratic Republic of Congo, the center of the outbreak ANALYSIS | STEPHANIE NOLEN | The World Health Organization has given its authorization to a first vaccine to protect against mpox, a decision announced in such haste on Friday that it …

Where they come from and what stands in the way of distributing them ANALYSIS | AGENCIES | The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have declared the latest outbreak of mpox in Africa a health emergency. An epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo …

Africa CDC’s vaccine hopes rise on Bavarian Nordic pledge ANALYSIS | MELODY CHIRONDA | “The African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) is in talks with Bavarian Nordic to facilitate technology transfer for African manufacturers,” said Dr. Jean Kaseya, the Director General of the Africa CDC, who addressed the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Agriculture Research Organisation (NARO) has started piloting the anti-tick vaccine in preparation for production planned for next year. Speaking to URN in an interview, Andrew Kiggundu NARO’s Principal Research Officer said that initial doses have been produced following a greenlight from clinical …

Health official list challenges hinder birth dose vaccination efforts Kampala, Uganda | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | Despite the introduction of the Hepatitis B (HBV) birth dose vaccine in 2023, public health officials acknowledge persistent challenges in achieving optimal immunisation coverage for new-borns. A major obstacle is the high number of births occurring …

Move is part of wide programme that involves routine multivalent meningitis, human rabies, and hepatitis B birth dose vaccination ANALYSIS | THE INDEPENDENT | In a historic step, preventive Ebola vaccination will become the norm in the highest-risk countries, courtesy of GAVI, the public-private partnership Vaccine Alliance that brings together developing …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Executive Director of the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), Prof. Pontiano Kaleebu, has urged vaccine manufacturers to disclose the side effects of the vaccines to the public. Kaleebu believes this is one of the avenues that can be exploited to offer transparency which is …