Public health leaders who contained the Ebola epidemic make the case for COVID-19 vaccine technology transfer, open access vaccines for poor countries, and donation of funds and doses for vaccines.
FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE Thirty veterans from the public health response to the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak and over eighty other public health experts from around the world are calling on the World Health Assembly (WHA), the decision-making body of the World Health Organization (WHO), to vote in its May 2021 meeting on propositions that would dramatically expand vaccine access in poor countries.
From May 24 to June 1, nations will convene at the World Health Assembly to make decisions about the global response to COVID-19. Signatories of the open letter argue that G20 and other wealthy countries must go beyond waiving patents for low-income countries to donate all of their excess doses of COVID-19 vaccines to poor countries that have been outbid for vaccines. The letter rea
Professor Charles Wambebe has worked at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and Georgetown University, Washington DC. He also worked with WHO and served as the Pioneer DG/CEO of the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development, Abuja. Recipient of TWAS Prizes in Medical Sciences and Building Scientific Institutions in Africa. Served as Consultant to the AUC, ADB, ECA, WHO, UNDP. Pioneer Pro-Chancellor and Chairman, Bingham University, Nigeria. Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science, African Academy of Sciences, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), among others. Pioneered the R&D of Niprisan, for the management of sickle cell disorder. Developed phytomedicines for treatment of malaria, fungal infection, peptic ulcer and HIV. Published over 150 articles in international journals. Currently Professor ExtraOrdinaire at Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria and Consultant to WHO on Traditional Medicine. He is also Honorary Professor of Pharmacology , Bingham Univer
By Funmi Ogundare
A team of American universities and partners are organising strategic fund-raising campaign initiative to equip administrators of Nigerian universities and other tertiary institutions with real-time skills on how to raise funds for operating their institutions.
The initiative tagged: ‘Strategic Fund Raising and Capital Campaign (SFCC)’ summit will comprise series of webinars and a hybrid summit holding at Minnesota State University Moorhead (MSUN) in Minnesota, United States.
The Head of the Nigerian team and Chairman of the Advisory Board for the summit, Professor Jibrila Dahiru Amin, in a statement made available to THISDAY yesterday, said the initiative was aimed at inculcating the culture of fundraising in universities and other tertiary institutions.
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Vouches for safety, efficacy of jabs, warns of third wave
The Nigerian Academy of Science (NAS) has warned that COVID-19 vaccines do not prevent infection but instead stop the virus from killing the patient.
This is even as it raised the alarm of a possible third wave of the pandemic if the citizenry do not religiously adhere to non-pharmacological measures such as wearing of facemasks, physical distancing and regular washing of hands.
At a media roundtable themed “Journalism, Pandemic, and Vaccines: Where do we go from here?” yesterday in Lagos, NAS President, Prof. Ekanem Braide, and Chairman, Ministerial Expert Advisory Committee on COVID-19, Prof. Oyewale Tomori, urged Nigerians to take the jabs, as they were safe and efficacious.