Cases of meningitis are surging in Africa, and the United Nations links the increase to a widely ignored environmental ...

situated in the area known as the African Meningitis Belt. It noted that in 2023, there was a 50 per cent jump in annual meningitis cases reported across Africa. 'In Nigeria, an outbreak of ...

United Nations humanitarian agencies are stepping up their efforts to combat a deadly outbreak of meningitis across West Africa ... the so-called “meningitis belt,” a sub-Saharan region ...

the vaccine is designed to be used by populations living in the sub-Saharan Africa, a region the World Health Organisation refers to as Meningitis Belt. "Meningitis carries a high mortality rate ...

He said: "The highest burden of CSM in Nigeria occurs in the "Meningitis Belt" which includes all 19 ... AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and distributing ...