La République démocratique du Congo (RDC) a franchi une étape majeure en santé publique en intégrant avec succès le vaccin antipaludique dans son programme national de vaccination de routine. 

A shipment of 15,460 doses of mpox vaccine, donated to Gavi-eligible countries by the vaccine manufacturer Bavarian Nordic, arrived in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) today to support the global and regional effort to contain the…

Efforts to vaccinate “zero-dose” children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will be accelerated thanks to new funding from Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance’s Equity Accelerator Fund (EAF).

Twelve countries across different regions in Africa are set to receive 18 million doses of the first-ever malaria vaccine over the next two years.

Geneva/New York, 16 November 2021 – Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi) and the member agencies of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) the humanitarian system’s main coordinating body1, are working together to ensure that the most vulnerable…

Geneva, 30 September 2021 – Last year, an Independent Commission was appointed to investigate allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse during the response to the tenth Ebola Virus Disease epidemic in North Kivu and Ituri, in the Democratic…

The first AstraZeneca doses donated to COVAX by the United Kingdom (UK) will soon arrive in Angola, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Senegal and Uganda, with Zambia and DRC set to be the first to receive these UK-donated vaccines…

Calling variants by their country of origin has politicised the pandemic response, leading to countries being blamed and people originating from those countries stigmatised and targeted – sometimes violently. Now, the World Health Organization is…

Democratic Republic of the Congo COVAX vaccine roll-out information and latest news.