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More than 350 000* people have fled the conflict in Sudan for safety in Chad, which is hosting the largest number of people forced across borders by the fighting to neighbouring countries. More than half of those who have fled to Chad have settled in the eastern border town of Adre.  

Tanzania launched COVID-19 vaccination in July 2021. During the first year of the rollout, misinformation and rumours circulating about the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines hampered widespread uptake.

Ghana has embarked on an initiative to reinforce the skills and capacity of health workers to provide basic emergency health services in low-resource settings.

Soon after Tanzania confirmed its first case of Marburg Virus Disease in February 2023, outbreak control measures were rolled out rapidly, with the country drawing on outbreak readiness capacity built up and reinforced in recent months. The efforts by the national health authorities, health workers and communities helped to end the outbreak in just around three months.

Maputo – Delivering polio vaccines to every district of the African Region is a complex undertaking, as national authorities and health partners fighting polio in Mozambique know only too well.

In the health district of Baga Sola in Chad’s western Lake province, mobile clinics have played a pivotal role in ensuring that the country’s most vulnerable populations can access COVID-19 vaccines. 

Over the past seven years, Rwanda has significantly reduced the burden of malaria, with the infection rate dropping from 409 cases per 1000 people in 2016 to just 76 cases per 1000 people in 2022. Malaria deaths also fell by more than 89% over the same period.

As immunization levels fell in over 100 countries worldwide between 2019 and 2021, in the largest sustained decline in childhood vaccinations in three decades, Ghana was not spared.