GAVI
31 Jul
Nigeria is currently battling with an annual funding deficit of $200 million for immunisation. The Director General of the Budget Office, Dr. Tanimu Yakubu, revealed this at the Multi-Stakeholders Technical Workshop for the Optimisation of Immunisation Financing in Nigeria, organised by the Vaccine Network for Disease Control in partnership with GAVI and the Global Health…
12 Mar
The Vaccine Alliance, Gavi, has outlined a roadmap to ensure stable supply of HPV vaccine for adolescent girls in lower-income countries, saying with over 348,000 deaths in 2022, cervical cancer continues to kill women globally.
24 Jan
The Minister of Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy of Nigeria, Honorable Bosun Tijani, has advocated for a sweeping technological transformation to confront the critical healthcare issues plaguing Africa. The Minister who spoke at an event organized by GAVI and co-hosted by the Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy and Zipline during the prestigious World…
23 Jan
Following a successful pilot programme, globe’s first World Health Organisation (WHO)-recommended malaria vaccines are to be administered through routine immunisation programmes across Africa today, beginning with Cameroon.
9 Dec 2023
The Board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, yesterday announced a series of decisions that will help lower-income countries tackle backsliding from the COVID-19 pandemic and be better prepared to respond to future health emergencies.
20 Sep 2023
The spokesperson to former President Muhammadu Buhari, Garba Shehu, on Wednesday hit out at a columnist, Sonala Olumhense, over attacks on the immediate past ruler even after leaving office. Shehu in a statement on X (formerly Twitter) said Olumhense who was dedicated to bashing Buhari for the eight years in office as president needs to…