According to the coalition, the region is facing a critical shortage of health workers amid a rising disease burden.
Gavi said BCU, launched during World Immunisation Week in 2023, also provided 23 million doses of inactivated polio vaccines to partially vaccinated and unvaccinated children.
Olukemi Adekanmbi, a consultant infectious disease physician at University College Hospital, Ibadan, says Lassa fever is curable.
As of 2024, HPV vaccines have averted nearly one million cervical cancer deaths in 29 African countries.
Sterling Bank says it is partnering with Sterling One Foundation and other stakeholders to launch a nationwide environmental campaign to tackle plastic pollution.
Gavi said it planned to make malaria vaccines available to 50 million children across Africa by 2030.
Affecting the eye, trachoma is the leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide.
Malaria vaccination is expanding across Africa, with early results showing fewer severe cases and deaths, even as funding challenges threaten to slow progress.
He called for urgent consumer education and food reformulation.
She stressed the need for adherence to proper reporting channels.
