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FILE: A handout photograph taken and released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on 24 May 2021, shows the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus delivering a speech during the 74th World Health Assembly, at the WHO headquarters, in Geneva. Picture: Christopher Black/World Health Organization/AFP

Covax

WHO urges rich countries to pay up for COVID plan

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The World Health Organization said the rapid cash injection into its Access to COVID Tools Accelerator could finish off COVID as a global health emergency this...

  • Image: © Chokniti Khongchum/123rf.com

    Africa’s first mRNA vaccine technology transfer hub gets to work

    The Conversation Africa’s Natasha Joseph spoke with Petro Terblanche, Afrigen’s managing director and a professor at South Africa’s North-West University, about what this work entails – and what it will mean for the continent.

    269 days ago
  • An employee at the Afrigen biotechnology company and vaccine hub facility works in a laboratory in Cape Town in October 2021. Picture: RODGER BOSCH/AFP

    SA team sets sights on innovative mRNA jab to help meet Africa's vaccine gap

    Cape Town-based Afrigen Biologics and Vaccines is leading a pilot project, backed by the UN's World Health Organization and the COVAX initiative, which seeks to tweak Moderna's revolutionary drug.

    306 days ago
  • Ghana received 600,000 doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine as part of the global Covax scheme on 24 February 2021. Picture: WHO

    2% or less have had COVID jabs in many African nations: WHO

    A total of 23 million vaccine doses arrived in Africa in September, a 10-fold increase from June.

    318 days ago
  • Ghana received 600,000 doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine as part of the global Covax scheme on 24 February 2021. Picture: WHO

    WHO's Covax forced to cut COVID vaccine deliveries to Africa by 25%

    WHO epidemiologist, Doctor Impouma Benido, said that a third of coronavirus vaccine doses pledged have so far had reached Africa.

    324 days ago
  • Ghana received 600,000 doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine as part of the global Covax scheme on 24 February 2021. Picture: WHO

    The race to vaccinate: why Africa is struggling to get COVID jabs

    Nearly six billion vaccine doses have been administered globally, but only 2% of those have been in Africa.

    327 days ago
  • Acting Minister of Health, Mmamoloko Kubayi joined by Health Deputy Minister Dr Joe Phaahla and Chief of Mission at US Embassy Todd Haskell receives 2.8 million Pfizer vaccine doses at the OR Tambo International Airport on 31 July 2021,. Picture: Twitter/@HealthZA

    US vaccine donation will go a long way to help SA reach targets – Health Dept

    The plane carrying over 2.8 million vials donated by the US through the Covax facility touched down at OR Tambo International Airport on Saturday afternoon.

    378 days ago
  • FILE: As of July 12, Covax had distributed over 102 million doses to 135 countries -- far fewer than the goal stated at the start of the year. Picture: 123rf.com

    Covax to receive 110 mn Chinese COVID vaccine doses: Gavi

    "The agreements, which come at a time when the Delta variant is posing a rising risk to health systems, will begin to make 110 million doses immediately available to participants of the Covax facility, with options for additional doses," said the vaccine alliance Gavi.

    398 days ago
  • FILE: A vaccinator recording the details of a vaccine set to be given to a healthcare worker at the Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria on 17 February 2021. Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News

    ANALYSIS: SA’s vaccine quagmire, and what needs to be done now

    South Africa has clearly suffered the consequences of poor strategic decisions to this point. It doesn't need to continue along these lines.

    405 days ago
  • A patient suspected of suffering from COVID-19 undergoes testing at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital isolation centre in Nigeria on May 2020. Picture: AFP.

    Nigeria to get nearly 4 million vaccine doses by August

    Nigeria -- home to some 200 million people -- got some four million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine in March with which it started a nationwide coronavirus vaccination programme.

    411 days ago
  • In this file photo taken on 30 December 2020, vials of undiluted Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine are prepared to administer to staff and residents at the Goodwin House Bailey's Crossroads, a senior living community in Falls Church, Virginia. Picture: Brendan Smialowski/AFP

    US buys half billion Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doses for poorest countries

    The United States has come under criticism for sitting on huge stocks of unused vaccines, something the government says was initially necessary as a precautionary measure in its own race to get shots into the arms of Americans.

    430 days ago
  • FILE: So while wealthy countries had pledged to give some 150 million doses so far -- on top of the doses Covax procures with donated funds -- that would not resolve the problem. Picture: 123rf.com

    WHO warns of June-July Covax doses shortfall

    Covax was set up to ensure equitable distribution of vaccines, particularly to low-income countries, and has already delivered more than 80 million doses to 129 territories.

    436 days ago
  • FILE: WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Picture: AFP

    Don't vaccinate kids, but give doses to Covax: WHO chief

    World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus voiced outrage that a number of rich countries were now vaccinating children and teenagers, while poorer states had barely begun vaccinating health workers and the most vulnerable groups.

    457 days ago
  • A healthcare worker fills a syringe with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States on 24 December 2020. Picture: AFP.

    Covax signs deal for 500m Moderna COVID-19 vaccine doses

    The doses, to come on stream from October at the earliest, will broaden out the portfolio of vaccines in the Covax scheme, which has so far been heavily reliant on the AstraZeneca vaccine and hit by delays.

    468 days ago
  • Picture: Pixabay.com

    Egypt gets hundreds of thousands of vaccines via Covax

    The AstraZeneca vaccines, the first to be provided through COVAX to Egypt, were delivered by plane to Cairo late Wednesday, WHO said in a statement.

    500 days ago
  • A medical worker holds a vial of the AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19 at a vaccination hub outside Rome's Termini railway station on 24 March 2021. Picture: ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP

    Covax vaccines for poor countries delayed by India: Gavi

    The AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine is being produced under licence in India for the Covax scheme, also led by the World Health Organization (WHO), which is meant to ensure that low-income countries can access COVID-19 jabs.

    507 days ago
  • FILE: This handout picture made available by the World Health Organization (WHO) shows WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus delivering remarks following the speech of US President's chief medical adviser during a World Health Organization (WHO) executive board meeting on 21 January 2021 in Geneva. Picture: AFP

    Don't waste the hope of vaccines, warns WHO

    The World Health Organization voiced fears that further waves of the coronavirus pandemic could be on the way if people think the roll-out of vaccines around the globe means the crisis is over.

    527 days ago
  • Ghana received 600,000 doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine as part of the global Covax scheme on 24 February 2021. Picture: WHO

    WHO rolls out Covax vaccines to southern Africa

    The COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access platform, also known as Covax last week delivered 600,000 units of the AstraZeneca vaccine to Ghana and 504,000 to the Ivory Coast.

    530 days ago
  • Ghana received 600,000 doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine as part of the global Covax scheme on 24 February 2021. Picture: WHO

    Ghana, I.Coast administer world's first free Covax jabs

    The first lady Rebecca Akufo-Addo also received a jab, one day before the rest of the 600,000 doses are deployed across the country.

    531 days ago
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