He said the efficacy trials were to determine whether the vaccine produces the expected result under ideal circumstances
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She said: “So far, the two Ebola vaccines that have already undergone the first phase of testing have an acceptable safety profile
The report claimed that at the present transmission rate, an estimated one million people would be infected with HIV; 200,000 cases of multidrug-resistant TB would be recorded, resulting to 1.7 million deaths
In recent weeks, West African and global development leaders have appealed for a massive coordinated reinforcement of international health teams to the three countries in order to contain the epidemic
Aylward said that hospital beds in the capital, Monrovia, had been freeing up, the number of laboratory-confirmed cases had remained stable and the number of burials had fallen
The report, entitled: “Global Tuberculosis Report 2014,” stated that the mortality rate from TB had continued to fall and dropped by 45 per cent since 1990
The UN’s health agency said it aimed to begin testing the two vaccines in the new year on more than 20,000 frontline health care workers and others in west Africa – a bigger rollout than previously envisioned
President Goodluck Jonathan has assured the international community that next year’s general elections in Nigeria will be conducted in accordance with global best practices to further strengthen the country’s democratic institutions.
The United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon, on Wednesday commended President Goodluck Jonathan for Nigeria’s efforts at containing the spread of Ebola Virus Disease in the country.
Two of the five countries affected by the world’s worst-ever Ebola outbreak are managing to halt the spread of the disease, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday.
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Nigeria that unfortunately became afflicted with the EVD courtesy of the late Liberian official Mr. Sawyer, battled tooth and nail to control and contain the EVD from spreading among the very large populations.
One of the survivors of the Ebola Virus Disease, Dr. Morris Ibeabuchi, on Thursday said he got the virus because the index case, Patrick Sawyer, lied about his illness in the hospital where he was treated on arrival in Lagos, the First Consultant Hospital.
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has appealed to U.S. President Barack Obama for urgent aid in tackling the worst recorded outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, saying that without it her country would lose the fight against the disease.
Global acknowledgement of the sterling leadership shown by the Lagos State Government and Governor Babatunde Fashola, SAN in the containment of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the country came from no less a body than the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged $50 million on Wednesday to support emergency efforts to contain West Africa’s Ebola…
The deadly Ebola epidemic raging across West Africa will likely get far worse before it gets better, more than doubling the number of known cases by the end of this month.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State (APC) has expressed satisfaction with the way and manner the Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi Administration has decisively tackled the Ebola outbreak in the State, urging people not to panic as the situation is under control.
A study, published Sunday in Nature Medicine, details promising results of a possible Ebola vaccine following trials carried out on monkeys.
The Minister of Health, Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu, on Monday announced that a total of 339 contacts who were previously under surveillance for Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) have been discharged having completed 21 days of observation.