Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) News

What Africa must do to help speed up global vaccinations

The more difficult question is how to do this. If we agree with UK foreign secretary Dominic Raab, among others,…

3 years ago

Stop the growing Covid-19 vaccines access inequality

By Dr GITHINJI GITAHI For the past year, countries have put in a lot of effort to fight the coronavirus…

3 years ago

Multi-sectoral Approach for Improved Response to Gender-Based Violence during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ethiopia

In Ethiopia, Amref Health Africa is establishing and strengthening one-stop centres at targeted hospitals to provide integrated medical and psychosocial…

3 years ago

Health Workers in Ethiopia Trained for Better Response to Gender-Based Violence during COVID-19 Pandemic

Mekonnen Aytenfisu, 34, has been serving as the Head of the Debrebirhan Kebele 04 Heath Centre in Ethiopia for about…

3 years ago

Essential COVID-19 training for community health volunteers made easier through phones

Ensuring that people in the community have the correct information regarding COVID-19 is vital to containing its spread and making…

3 years ago

How mobile phones are improving the training of community health volunteers in Malawi during COVID-19

Susan Makina, 51, has been a Community Health Volunteer (CHV) in Malawi since 2016. She lives and works in Tambala…

3 years ago

How the right policies can unleash digital innovation in African healthcare

Africa was impacted by the pandemic in part because of healthcare system constraints, which Africa Health 2021 speakers believe can…

3 years ago

Nyeri County launches evening covid-19 vaccination program

In its bid to boost the Covid-19 vaccine coverage, the Nyeri county government has partnered with Amref Health Africa to roll out an evening vaccination program.…

3 years ago

‘Time to lift the curfew,’ Dr. Githinji says as he lobbies for mass vaccination

Curfews should be lifted and shifted to on-as-needed basis across Africa, according to Amref Health Africa Global CEO Dr Githinji…

3 years ago

Africa’s women, children, adolescents are being left behind, pandemic making it worse

We must do so much more to support Africa’s most vulnerable women, children and adolescents, write Helen Clark, Board Chair…

3 years ago