The World Health Organization speculated that a mass poisoning event was behind the deaths of 60 people. But African experts ...

Nigeria rolled out the world's first vaccine against all strains of meningitis. The shot will help ease the burden of disease in Africa's "meningitis belt". Nigeria has become the first country in ...

Nigeria is one of the 26 meningitis hyper-endemic countries of Africa, situated in the area known as the African Meningitis Belt. Last year, there was a 50% jump in annual meningitis cases ...

To combat the outbreak, the Ghana Health Service launched an oral cholera vaccination campaign in February 2025, targeting high-risk areas in the Greater Accra Region. However, these vaccines are ...

Who is vulnerable to meningitis? Anyone can contract the disease but it is more common in people with weakened immune systems ...

It was a hot afternoon on February 7, this year, when Adam Fuseina, a resident of Charikpong in the Nadowli-Kaleo District in the Upper West Region, noticed that her 10-year-old son had developed feve ...

The Upper West Region is located within the African meningitis belt, making it highly susceptible to recurrent epidemics. Factors contributing to the spread of meningitis in Ghana include climatic ...

The ongoing collaboration between WHO, Ghanaian health authorities, and local communities highlights a unified commitment to ...

The Minister of Health, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh has expressed his ministry's preparedness to curb the spread of meningitis diseases in the country especially in the Upper East region. According to ...

the vaccine is designed to be used by populations living in the sub-Saharan Africa, a region the World Health Organisation refers to as Meningitis Belt. "Meningitis carries a high mortality rate ...

The global meningitis treatment industry, valued at USD 150.9 million in 2023, is projected to grow at a CAGR of 4.1% from ...