Vaccine

05 Mar

Purchase Immunization Vaccines To Avoid Outbreak Of Childhood Diseases – SEND Ghana

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An advocacy group SEND Ghana has asked the government to urgently purchase vaccines for routine immunization of children to avert an outbreak of childhood diseases in the country. There has been a widespread shortage of some essential Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) and Oral poliovirus vaccines (OPV) vaccines due to the Health Ministry’s failure to secure payment of these vaccines. Other vaccines to prevent diseases like measles and whooping cough are also in short supply. “Already, 120 children have reportedly been infected with measles in Northern Ghana, and many more across the country could suffer a similar fate. We recommend that government…

11 Jan

Ghana To Reach Final Stage To Produce Vaccine By Mid-2023 – Dr. Anthony Nsiah-Asare

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Ghana's Presidential advisor on health Dr. Anthony Nsiah-Asare has revealed that by mid- 2023, Ghana will reach the final stage (level 4) to produce its own vaccine. Speaking exclusively to Kwaku Dawuro on Movement in the morning show on Movement TV/ Wontumi Radio in Accra, he stated that the "Ghana is working hard to get to the highest stage which is the maturity level (level four) so that once the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) approves it, we can export it to other countries. The FDA is working assiduously towards that, and we are optimistic by mid of this year we…