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AFRICA – Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, has announced the appointment of African immunologist, parasitologist and malariologist Rose Gana Fomban Leke as the new chair of its independent review committee (IRC).…
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CAMEROON – The Cameroonian Government has secured a US$12M grant from the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) to finance the construction of the Mbalmayo Regional Hospital Project, the Saudi Arabian…
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CAMEROON – CCA Bank and Commercial Bank-Cameroun have received US$28.46 million (EUR27m) of new long-term financing from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to support investment by entrepreneurs and businesses across Cameroon and strengthen economic resilience to the COVID-19 pandemic. The two…
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AFRICA – Brazilian pharmaceutical company EMS has donated 6 million tablets of the oral antibiotic azithromycin to Cameroon, Central African Republic and the Republic of Congo in an effort to…
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CAMEROON – Cameroonian e-health startup Waspito has closed a US$2.7m seed funding round which will be used to it grow its client base in its home market and launch operations…
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MALAWI – Malawian health authorities have put in place preventive measures to control the further spread of water-borne disease Cholera amid outbreak in the southern Malawi region such as surveillance…
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CAMEROON – Cameroon has been hit by a surge in cholera cases in the last two weeks in the country’s Southwest region, adding to a public health crisis accompanied by…
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CAMEROON – Doctors Without Borders (MSF), have withdrawn their health care services in Cameroon following government suspension for eight months. Cameroonian authorities have accused the aid group of helping separatist…
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CAMEROON – While thousands of people struggle to access vital healthcare in the restive North-West region of Cameroon, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is still denied the resumption of…
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