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Vaccine shortage: We run the daily risk of having children pass away – Dr Manteybea Boye

Since the beginning of the year, health professionals and experts have lamented the nationwide shortage of childhood immunisation vaccines. Even though the Ghana Health Service (GHS)...

Vaccine shortage: Measles outbreak in children as case count hits 500

The Paediatric Society of Ghana has disclosed that over 500 children have contracted measles due to the shortage of vaccines in the country. The delay...

Vaccine shortage: Northern part of Ghana records over 100 measles cases

It is reported that around 100 children in Ghana's northern region have the measles. This is according to Dr. Hilda Mantebea Boye, the Paediatrics Society...

SEND Ghana expresses concern over potential outbreak of children illnesses

A policy research and advocacy non-governmental organisation, SEND Ghana, has cautioned the public about a potential breakout of children diseases in the nation, if...

Community-based response boosts Liberia’s COVID-19 detection, others

Rapid diagnostic testing for everyone residing within 100 meters of newly confirmed cases helped break transmission chains and greatly increased the uptake of COVID-19...

US approves world’s first honey bee vaccine

The first ever honey bee vaccine has been given the green light for use in the US. It was developed to stop American foulbrood disease,...

‘Ebola is real’: Uganda to test vaccines and close schools early to contain the outbreak

Ebola has taken almost everything and everyone dear to Joseph Singiringabo. The 78-year-old lost his wife, son, and newborn granddaughter to the disease in...

Vaccine confidence is ‘another victim of the COVID-19 pandemic,’ according to a new study

Researchers found a fall in confidence in nearly one in four participants since 2020, regardless of their age, gender, religious belief, education or ethnicity. Confidence...

Figures on Ghana’s COVID-19 vaccine administration so far

A total number of 20,359,448 Ghanaians have been vaccinated as at October 20, 2022, on the COVID-19 Situation data dashboard. 10,449,734 individuals have received the...

6.9m children to be vaccinated during 2nd round vaccination campaign – GHS

Over 6.9 million children under five years are expected to be vaccinated in the second round of the National Polio Vaccination Campaign (PVC) from...

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