We want to vaccinate 70% of people of 50+ with one shot of #COVID19 vaccine by the end of December (so before a 4th wave).
Where are we?
60+: 63.31%
50-59: 57.11%
3. Has any province covered 70% of people of 60+ with 1 #COVID19 vaccine shot?
Yes, Limpopo has vaccinated 76.17% of people of 60+ with one dose of vaccine (1 #JnJ or 1 #Pfizer shot).
WC isn't far off: 69.12% of 60+ = covered with 1 shot. (EC, KZN and FS = all above 65%)
4. Has any province covered 70% of people between 50-59 years with 1 shot of #COVID19 vaccine?
No.
The province that comes closest to this is Limpopo at 67.23%. EC = 67% and FS = 64.28%. The rest of the provinces = all below 60%.
5. If we look at the 60+ and 50-59 populations together (so if we look at 50+), how far are we off the goal of getting 70% covered with 1 #COVID19 jab by the end of Dec?
Nationally, we've covered 60.42% of the 50+ population with 1 jab. LP = reached the goal (72.22%).
6. How many more people of 50+ do we need to vaccinate to have 70% of them covered by the end of Dec?
50+ population = 10,322,753
People of 50+ covered with 1 shot = 6,236,875 (60.42%)
70% of 50+ = 7,225,927
7,225,927 - 6,236,875 (people covered) = 989,052 (9.6% of 50+)
[Thread] 1. BREAKING: Treasury has awarded @healthza emergency funds of R753 528-mil via section 16 of the Public Finance Management Act to help fill the gap of the #Trump administration's cutting of #HIV and #TB grants.
2. R590 407-mil of the total of R753 528-mil will go to provinces for #HIV service delivery.
R32 121-mil will go to @healthza to support the CCMDD programme (this delivers chronic meds such as #ARin communities so people don't have to line up at clinics)
3. R132-mil of the total of R753 528-mil will go to the SA Medical Research Council to support medical research (lots of US grants were lost, especially from the NIH, although it looks like some of cuts may now be recversed by the NIH. science.org/content/articl…
🧵1. BREAKING: The peer-reviewed results of the study of a 6-monthly jab, #lenacapavir, in which not a single of the 2134 women between 16-25 years who received the jab contracted #HIV, were released at #Aids2024.
2. Women often find it hard to adhere to daily #oralPrEP. In the Purpose 1 trial, 91.5% of women returned on time for their next #lenacapavir jab at 26 weeks and 92.8% at week 52.
3. Only 4 women out of 2134 (0.2%) who received #lenacapavir dropped out of the trial because of injection-site reactions.
[Thread] 12 things to know about the the proportion of pregnant women infected with #HIV from SA’s latest antenatal HIV survey. The survey is conducted by the @nicd_sa.
(Analysis of our 95-95-95 goals in my next thread later in Jan).
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2. What is the antenatal #HIV survey?
1. It measures the % of HIV+ pregnant women between the ages of 15 + 49. 2. Only women using state pregnancy clinics take part. 3. The survey has been conducted each year between 1990-2015, then in 2017, 2019 +2022.
3. How many pregnant women between 15-49’s blood was tested for #HIV? 37 828 out of 40 542 collected samples.
- 37 7171 = Black African women
- 37 541 didn’t live with the dad of their child
- 35,635 of dads were 5 years+ older than moms (this makes them more likely to get HIV)
JUST IN [Thread]:
1.@healthza's Lesley Broomberg:
An extra #COVID19 booster jab for people of 18+ in SA will become available towards the end of JANUARY
- People of 50+ qualify for a 5th dose
- People of 18+ qualify for a 4th dose
2. Lesley Broomberg: Can you mix and match with additional boosters? Yes. You can choose whether you want a #JnJ or #Pfizer booster.
3. Lesley Broomberg:
Will teens of 12-17 qualify for boosters? Not at this stage. Why not? The #VMAC = not recommended booster doses for 12-17, based on an understanding that the protection provided by 2 #Pfizer doses = adequate, as 12-17 = @ low risk of severe #COVID19 illness
[Thread] #JoePhaahla:
- Genomic surveillance Network reported the detection of the new subvariant XBB.1.5 in SA of a sample of a patient tested on 22 Dec
- Details of the patient = not known, it was a random sample taken for testing
- XBB.1.5 = also common in US
2. XBB.1.5 = common in US
#JoePhaahla:
- 97%+ of #COVID19 cases worldwide = still #Omicron
- XBB.1.5 cases = no major change in hospitalisations or deaths
- Immunity of SAs (vax and natural immunity) = still strong, so that is why we haven't seen much change in terms of hospital admissions/deaths
Which APIs will Aspen use?
India's Serum Institute's
2. Why is it NB that an African company makes these jabs?
#Africa imports almost all its jabs. #COVID19 showed us this results in Africa being last in line to get vaccines during pandemics. The grant to Aspen is 1 of the 1st steps to change that.
3. What's the goal?
By 2040, the African Union wants #Africa to make 60% of the jabs the continent uses.
Why?
So that Africa is better equipped 2 respond 2 outbreaks (by developing the ability to make jabs + have technology in place to also make new jabs during pandemics).