Africa CDC staff In 2022, 61-year-old Mr Mebrhatu Gebreegziabher received his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine during the pandemic, and as a pensioner residing in the remote, hard-to-reach area of Agebe village, Tanqa Milash woreda, Tigray Region in the ...
COVID-19 health response lasts the mile on the continent | By Africa CDC staff In 2021, faced with the possibility of receiving up to 900 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to vaccinate 70% of Africa’s population, Dr John Nkengasong, the ...
By Sharon Atieno In her fourth month of pregnancy, Lilian Clinton, 35, a resident of Naningoi village, Kajiado county near Nairobi, Kenya had started experiencing severe headaches and difficulty in breathing. Work that she would do comfortably, became too difficult ...
School girls in Kenya display their human papillomavirus (HPV) cards after vaccination | By Sharon Atieno It is almost 5pm in the evening, when we arrive at Oiti Glory Comprehensive School, Kajiado county, nearly 100km to the southeast of Nairobi. ...
How community engagement changed vaccine uptake in Abuja community | Lara Adejoro In the early days of Nigeria’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign, one barrier proved more stubborn than supply chain logistics: public trust. From urban centres to rural communities, skepticism, misinformation, ...
By Diana Meneto For decades, the Maasai community has solely relied on livestock keeping as their source of income. This, however, has been greatly affected by climate change which has brought about frequent and severe droughts leading to water scarcity ...
Entre amélioration de la logistique, formation des personnels logisticiens et lutte contre la désinformation, entre autres, le projet SLL porté par cette organisation a considérablement contribué au renforcement de l’accès aux vaccins. Par Guy Martial Tchinda Porté par sa maman, ...
Nadège Christelle BOWA Lancé en 2021 pour venir à bout de la pandémie de Covid-19, le programme « Saving lives and livelihoods (Sll) » (Sauver des vies et des moyens de subsistance), d’Africa Cdc et Mastercard foundation, semble avoir dépassé ...
Ces deux dames ont été nommées comme logisticiennes il y a une décennie pour la première et trois ans pour la deuxième. Sans expérience préalable, elles ont essuyé bien de difficultés avant de bénéficier d’une formation organisée dans le cadre ...
By Diana Maneto In the sleepy Intinyika village in Kajiado Central constituency, we find Lilian Sision, a mother of four humming lullabies to her one-month-old, soothing her for an afternoon nap. Sision, though a mother of three other children, sees ...
By Tebby Otieno The chirping of birds at dawn has become the soundtrack to hope for mothers across rural Kenya. In villages where the nearest hospital requires a day’s journey and cultural beliefs can prove deadlier than disease, a quiet revolution ...
By Michael Gwarisa From a distance, a thick cloud of dust rose above the Mopane-strewn horizon on the southern side of Muchohwe Primary School, deep in Chief Chireya’s territory in Gokwe North. Minutes later, a white twin-cab vehicle emerged, prompting cheers ...