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WAHO Expands Lassa Fever Coalition with new Regional Health Partners to Accelerate Vaccine Access in West Africa

By Nigeria Health Watch
May 15, 2025
4 Mins read
Three leading West African health partners: Corona Management Systems, Nigeria Health Watch, and Bloom Public Health, have officially joined the Lassa Fever…
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Thought Leadership

Boosting Country Coordination and Ownership for Lassa Fever Preparedness in West Africa

By Nigeria Health Watch
December 7, 2024
6 Mins read
Lead Writers: Ibukun Oguntola, Dr Aishat Usman, and Dr Virgil Lokossou Walking through the bustling streets of Owo, a small town in…
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Largest-ever Lassa fever study launches in-depth look at disease symptom

By Nigeria Health Watch
October 2, 2024
5 Mins read
Scientists in Nigeria are expanding their research into the deadly Lassa fever with the launch of a pioneering study designed to get…
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Thought Leadership

Ten Years After Ebola: Learnings for Lassa Fever, “Lassa-X” and Pandemic Preparedness

By Nigeria Health Watch
September 13, 2024
5 Mins read
Oluomachukwu Omeje (Lead Writer) In global health, past epidemics are important learning experiences that shape our responses to future health emergencies. The…
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Participants in Nigeria vaccinated in first-ever Phase 2 Lassa fever vaccine clinical trial, sponsored by IAVI

By Nigeria Health Watch
April 4, 2024
7 Mins read
The CEPI-funded study will evaluate the safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity of IAVI’s single dose Lassa fever vaccine candidate Key takeaways • Participants…
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Thought Leadership

Are we there yet? Leveraging the Private Sector for Lassa Vaccine R&D

By Ibukun Oguntola
November 21, 2023
6 Mins read
The search for an effective vaccine against Lassa fever has gained momentum in recent years. Currently, early supportive care and the anti-viral…
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Thought Leadership

CEPI: Accelerating Lassa Fever Vaccine Development in Nigeria

By Beti Baiye
July 13, 2023
4 Mins read
The law of inertia, referred to as Newton’s first law of motion, states that “an object will remain at rest or in…
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Torchlight

Institute of Lassa Fever Research and Control: Strengthening Nigeria’s Local Capacity to Lead the Lassa Fever Response

By Nigeria Health Watch
July 4, 2022
5 Mins read
By Beti Baiye and Ibukun Oguntola The driveway in the grounds of the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital (ISTH) is large and welcoming…
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Thought Leadership

When a Virus ‘Outstays its Welcome’: Lassa Virus found in the Semen of Survivors 9 Months after Recovery – implications for public health management

By Nigeria Health Watch
January 22, 2022
5 Mins read
Editor’s Note: In this commentary Professor Sylvanus. A. Okogbenin, the Chief Medical Director of Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, discusses the significance of…
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Press Release

EDCTP and CEPI funding moves IAVI's Lassa fever vaccine candidate into advanced clinical development

By Nigeria Health Watch
June 15, 2021
4 Mins read
Global consortium of expert partners will generate proof-of-concept data to support product licensure and future access NEW YORK, THE HAGUE, AND OSLO…
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Torchlight

Courage in the midst of fear; How Kano contained its current Lassa Fever outbreak

By Bashar Abubakar
February 17, 2020
7 Mins read
It was the last day of 2019. Everyone, including health workers at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH), the largest healthcare facility in…
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Press Release

Themis Bioscience and CEPI Announce Initiation of Phase 1 Clinical Trial with Lassa Fever Vaccine

By Nigeria Health Watch
October 29, 2019
4 Mins read
Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) partnership will support Themis’ development and manufacturing of vaccine candidate — Vienna, Austria and Oslo, Norway,…
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Thought Leadership

Lassa Fever: Why the Nigerian government should fund disease diagnostics for epidemic preparedness

By Chidindu Mmadu-Okoli
July 25, 2019
7 Mins read
Editor’s Note: Chidindu Mmadu-Okoli is a 2019 #PreventEpidemicsNaija Fellow at Nigeria Health Watch. In this piece she writes about a doctor whose…
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Press Release

Decline in Lassa Fever Cases as NCDC Sustains Intensive Response

By Nigeria Health Watch
March 11, 2019
4 Mins read
Over the last five weeks, there has been a decline in the number of new cases of Lassa fever reported in Nigeria….
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