Category: Medicine

The lack of vaccine production capacity in African countries has been the subject of much concern and hand-wringing in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. It has become a particularly hot topic because of the gravely unequal access to COVID-19 vaccines between developed and developing countries. Africa has limited capacity for vaccines production. Only Tunisia, Senegal, Egypt, Ethiopia, […]

While the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been well documented in high-income countries, much less is known about its impact on low-income and conflict-affected countries where there are significant challenges in information generation and dissemination. Somalia is one of these countries. It has been battered by a series of large-scale humanitarian emergencies, epidemics and population displacements. These crises […]

The latest batch of Chinese-donated Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines, totaling 800,000 doses, arrived in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, yesterday, giving a boost to the nation’s vaccination efforts. China has so far donated in excess of 1.8 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to Ethiopia, which the Ethiopian government said, has played an important role in combating the […]

The government of China has donated 800,000 anti-COVID pandemic vaccines to Ethiopia today.Health Minister, Lia Tadesse received the vaccines from the Ambassador of China to Ethiopia, Zhao Zhiyuan.On the occasion, Ambassador Zhao said President Xi Jin…