Eight people test positive for Ebola in Guinea, say state health authorities

Published on February 15, 2021

 Eight people have tested positive for the Ebola virus in southeastern Guinea and three of them have died. Reuters

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Tanzania refuses COVID-19 vaccines

February 12, 2021
On Feb 2, 2021, in Dodoma, Tanzania's capital, the health minister announced that the country “has no plans in place to accept COVID-19 vaccines.Burundi, Eritrea, and Madagascar are among other African absentees on the COVAX forecast list. The Lancet

Challenges in ensuring global access to COVID-19 vaccines: production, affordability, allocation, and deployment

February 15, 2021
Having licensed vaccines is not enough to achieve global control of COVID-19: they also need to be produced at scale, priced affordably, allocated globally so that they are available where needed, and widely deployed in local communities. In this Health Policy paper, they review potential challenges to success in each of these dimensions and discuss policy implications. The Lancet