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Pressure on the government to find more covid-19 vaccines for Ugandans is intensifying as the previous batch will run out this week. By the end of May, the government transferred $11m (Shs 38.7b) to the United Nations Children’s Fund. This is for procurement of vaccines through COVAX.However, the 20% funded by Global Alliance for Vaccines and immunization (GAVI)/ COVAX has ...

South Sudan is looking to dispose of 60,000 expired doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. The rollout of the vaccines has been hampered by public scepticism, a health ministry official said Monday. The African telecommunications company MTN and the African Union donated the vaccines late last month. “When it reached here, we later discovered that the (remaining) lifespan of this vaccine ...