Africa needs 10 million doses of mpox vaccines

Africa needs 10 million doses of mpox vaccines

Tanzanian politician Dr. Faustine Engelbert Ndugulile has been nominated as the World Health Organization’s regional director for Africa for a five-year term. This comes amid an Mpox outbreak across eight African countries, which has been declared a global health emergency. The Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has called for 10 million Mpox vaccine doses to address the outbreak.

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Faustine Engelbert Ndugulile, oye aulikwa akaninge omunambelewa omukulunhu alandulako mehangano lo WHO mu Africa.

Omunapolitika ashiiika nawa mo Tanzania Faustine Engelbert Ndugulile, okwa ulikwa oye aninge omunambelewa omukulunhu wehangano louhaku mouyuni WHO mu Africa talandulako. Ehoololo la Engelbert, otaku lopotwa lali laningwa koilyolongo yehangano lo WHO moilyolongo ya Africa. Engelbert okwa hoololwa pefimbo enenedu la taalela oupyakadi wetukuko lomukifi wo Mpox, oo takutiwa owa tandavela moilyolongo ili 8 ya Africa nouli watulwa koshivalo shomakwafo opaulumomumbwe mounyuni. 55 eli oshilyo sheumbo lopashiwana ota landula Matshidiso Moeti, oo […]

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Cholera outbreak spreads across 12 African countries

The World Health Organisation Africa Region says the cholera outbreak has spread to 12 countries on the continent. As of Thursday, ten-thousand-887 cases and 432 deaths were reported across nine of the country’s ten provinces. WHO Africa emergency health officer, Patrick Otim, says the Lusaka district is the epicenter of the outbreak.

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