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A line for monkeypox vaccination in the northern French city of Lille, where many Belgians have been welcomed to get a dose

A line for monkeypox vaccination in the northern French city of Lille, where many Belgians have been welcomed to get a dose

World

Europeans cross borders to get monkeypox vaccine

Hundreds of Europeans have crossed borders for the monkeypox vaccine, sparking calls to address a gaping inequality in access to doses between nations. The...

AFPAugust 25, 2022

The global monkeypox outbreak has caused a scramble for vaccine doses

The global monkeypox outbreak has caused a scramble for vaccine doses

Tech & Science

Monkeypox vaccine availability and effectiveness

A smallpox vaccine shown to protect against monkeypox has come under huge global demand.

AFPAugust 3, 2022

The Jackson Women's Health Organization, also known as the Pink House (pictured April 2018) -- the only clinic that offered abortions in the US state of Mississippi -- has closed since the landmark Supreme Court ruling

The Jackson Women's Health Organization, also known as the Pink House (pictured April 2018) -- the only clinic that offered abortions in the US state of Mississippi -- has closed since the landmark Supreme Court ruling

World

In one month, 43 US clinics have stopped offering abortions: study

At least 43 clinics throughout the United States have stopped offering abortions since the Supreme Court rolled back the nationwide right to the procedure,...

AFPJuly 28, 2022

New York City public health commissioner Ashwin Vasan, seen July 17, 2022, wrote a letter to WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

New York City public health commissioner Ashwin Vasan, seen July 17, 2022, wrote a letter to WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

World

New York asks WHO to re-name ‘stigmatizing’ monkeypox

New York City asked the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday to rename the monkeypox virus to avoid stigmatizing patients who might then hold...

AFPJuly 26, 2022

China is struggling to convince many of its residents to get inoculated -- especially its vaccine-hesitant elderly

China is struggling to convince many of its residents to get inoculated -- especially its vaccine-hesitant elderly

World

China confirms top officials vaccinated as it seeks to reassure vaccine-sceptic

Chinese anti-Covid vaccines are safe and have been given to the country's top leaders, Beijing's health authorities said Saturday.

AFPJuly 23, 2022

People wait in line to receive the monkeypox vaccine outside a vaccination center in Brooklyn, New York

People wait in line to receive the monkeypox vaccine outside a vaccination center in Brooklyn, New York

Life

Long lines in New York for monkeypox vaccine

On a hot Sunday afternoon in New York, the epicenter of the US monkeypox outbreak, a long line of men aged 20 to 40...

AFPJuly 17, 2022

EU lines up Covid travel pass, Eiffel Tower to reopen

EU lines up Covid travel pass, Eiffel Tower to reopen

World

French government supports enshrining abortion in constitution

Politicians representing a parliamentary majority voiced support for a bill enshrining abortion rights in France's constitution.

AFPJune 25, 2022

Image provided by the International Trachoma Initiative of antibiotics being distributed in Mozambique to fight trachoma, an infectious disease that can cause blindness

Image provided by the International Trachoma Initiative of antibiotics being distributed in Mozambique to fight trachoma, an infectious disease that can cause blindness

Tech & Science

Pfizer sets sights on elimination of blinding disease trachoma by 2030

Pfizer said it would extend until 2030 a drug donation programme aimed at eliminating trachoma, an eye disease responsible for blindness.

AFPJune 23, 2022

With surging number of Covid cases in Western Europe, officials have called for increased vigilance

With surging number of Covid cases in Western Europe, officials have called for increased vigilance

Tech & Science

Covid subvariants cast shadow over European summer

A resurgence of Covid cases in Europe, driven by new, fast-spreading Omicron subvariants, is threatening to disrupt people's summer.

AFPJune 22, 2022

Daviti Suleimanishvili lost the lower part of his left leg while defending Ukraine's war-torn southern port city of Mariupol

Daviti Suleimanishvili lost the lower part of his left leg while defending Ukraine's war-torn southern port city of Mariupol

Life

Despite losing leg in Mariupol, fighter eyes return to Ukraine frontline

In a small orthopaedic clinic in Kyiv, Daviti Suleimanishvili listens as doctors describe various prostheses that could replace his left leg.

AFPMay 27, 2022

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