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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
12/3/2024 10:29:41 PM
Egypt is ramping up its vaccine production
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Life & Style
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Health
12/2/2024 6:29:46 PM
It’s been called the closest the world has ever come to a vaccine against the AIDS virus.
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World
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International
11/15/2024 1:31:07 PM
Donald Trump on Thursday tapped anti-vaccine activist and conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his secretary of health in the latest provocative nomination from the incoming Republican president.
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Business
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Economy
10/22/2024 8:00:07 PM
The House of Representatives approved two grants worth 11 million euros between Egypt and the European Union (EU) to support child protection systems and vaccine and medicine production, the Ministry of Planning, Economic Development, and International Cooperation announced on Tuesday.
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Life & Style
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Health
10/19/2024 12:06:50 PM
There are no more oral cholera vaccines left in the global stockpile, the World Health Organization said Friday, with the shortage jeopardising work to stop the disease’s spread.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
10/16/2024 5:28:34 PM
More than 150,000 children in Gaza received the required second dose of oral polio vaccine in the first two days of the campaign's second round, the WHO chief said Wednesday.
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Life & Style
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Health
9/22/2024 9:02:00 AM
Lessons learned from the Covid pandemic have left the world in a much better position to tackle the current mpox epidemic raging in Africa, according to the Gavi vaccine alliance.
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World
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Africa
9/10/2024 9:44:16 PM
Democratic Republic of Congo received on Tuesday 50,000 more vaccine doses from the United States to fight the country's mpox epidemic, adding to some 200,000 donated by the European Union.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
9/7/2024 3:21:03 PM
Israeli air raids in the Gaza Strip killed more than a dozen people overnight into Saturday morning, hospital and local authorities said, as health workers were wrapping up the second phase of an urgent polio vaccination campaign designed to prevent a large-scale outbreak in the territory.
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Life & Style
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Health
9/7/2024 9:28:00 AM
Polio was eliminated from most parts of the world . But polio is one of the world’s most infectious diseases and is still spreading in a small number of countries. What is this disease and why does it come back?
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World
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Africa
9/5/2024 10:13:14 PM
The first batch of mpox vaccine arrived in Congo’s capital on Thursday, the country’s authorities said, three weeks after the World Health Organization declared mpox outbreaks in 12 African countries a global emergency.
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World
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Africa
9/4/2024 5:44:00 PM
The first delivery of mpox vaccines will arrive in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday, the African Union's health watchdog said.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
9/3/2024 8:04:59 PM
The WHO said on Tuesday that its emergency polio vaccination campaign in Gaza has reached more children than expected, with 161,000 receiving their initial dose in the first two days.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
9/1/2024 11:15:42 AM
A polio vaccination campaign officially began Sunday in the Gaza Strip where the United Nations has announced "humanitarian pauses" to allow for large-scale inoculation, a health official told AFP.
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World
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Africa
8/30/2024 7:04:25 PM
The first delivery of mpox vaccines is expected to arrive in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the coming days, the World Health Organization's chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Friday.
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World
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International
8/27/2024 9:12:03 PM
The WHO on Tuesday said droplets were a minor route of transmission for mpox compared to physical contact, adding that more research was needed to understand how the outbreak is spreading.
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World
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Africa
8/26/2024 7:18:31 PM
Germany will donate 100,000 mpox vaccine doses to countries in Africa suffering from a surge in cases, the government said Monday.
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World
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International
8/25/2024 5:58:42 PM
Pope Francis on Sunday highlighted victims of the mpox virus in his weekly prayers and called on governments and the pharmaceutical industry to do more to get vaccines to the worst hit countries.
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Life & Style
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Health
8/23/2024 6:54:34 PM
US regulators approved updated COVID-19 vaccines on Thursday, shots designed to more closely target recent virus strains, and hopefully whatever variants cause trouble this winter, too.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
8/23/2024 4:47:26 PM
The recent discovery of the first case of polio in the Gaza Strip in 25 years presents a significant challenge for health workers and aid agencies as they prepare for a mass vaccination campaign in the war-torn territory.
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