Communicable disease experts are advocating for steps to be taken to protect university students against meningococcal ...

Meningococcal meningitis poses a significant public health burden in the meningitis belt region of sub-Saharan Africa. The introduction of the meningococcal PsA-TT vaccine (MenAfriVac®) has ...

During World Immunization Week (24–30 April), the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, issued a dire warning: global immunization efforts are under severe threat.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has introduced its first-ever global guidelines for the diagnosis, treatment, and care of meningitis, marking a crucial milestone in the fight against this ...

The Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (FMoH&SW) has received over one million doses of the Pentavalent Meningococcal Conjugate Vaccine (Men5CV) from the Gavi-funded global stockpile to ...

Nigeria has begun a major push to contain a fast-spreading meningitis outbreak that has already killed over 70 people and infected more than 800 across 23 states. To battle the disease, the country ...

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 05 April 2025: This week, Nigeria’s Ministry of Health received over 1,000,000 pentavalent meningococcal conjugate vaccine (Men5CV) doses from the Gavi-funded global stockpile ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria has received more than 1 million vaccines from the Gavi-funded global stockpile to combat a meningitis outbreak in the northern part of the country, the government said ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria has received ...