Since 2024, Gavi has supported Men5CV deployment for outbreak response, routine immunisation, and preventive mass campaigns in the meningitis belt. Nigeria became the first country to receive Men5CV ...

The statement noted that the vaccine doses are part of an emergency response campaign targeting individuals aged one to 29 years, the most affected group.

Nigeria’s Ministry of Health has received over 1,000,000 doses of pentavalent meningococcal conjugate vaccine (Men5CV) from ...

The federal government has received over one million doses of the pentavalent meningococcal conjugate vaccine (Men5CV) to ...

Nigeria's Ministry of Health received over 1,000,000 pentavalent meningococcal conjugate vaccine (Men5CV) doses from the Gavi-funded global stockpile to combat the meningococcus C and W outbreak in ...

The outbreak has already claimed over 70 lives, with more than 800 cases across 23 states. Seasonal outbreaks are common during the dry season ...

The Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare received over one million pentavalent meningococcal conjugate vaccine (Men5CV) doses from the Gavi-funded global stockpile this week to combat the ...

The R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine, administered in four doses at 6, 7, 8 and 18 months, will initially target 1.1 million ...

A humanitarian crisis is rapidly unfolding on both sides of the South Sudan – Ethiopia border, as escalating violence, ...

The World Health Organization calls cholera a disease of poverty, as it thrives where there is poor sanitation and a lack of ...

Addis Ababa: The Ethiopian government has launched a cholera vaccination campaign in the southwestern part of the country, ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Thailand to attend the sixth BIMSTEC Summit. The summit, which brings together ...