The World Health Organization ( WHO) will send millions of doses of A/H1N1 flu vaccine to African countries to help them fight the pandemic, a spokesman said on Friday.

At least 10 to 15 African countries are expected to get vaccines for 2 to 10 percent of their population in the coming weeks, Gregory Hartl told a news briefing in Geneva.

Among the countries that will receive the vaccine are Nigeria, Cameroon, Senegal, Togo, Kenya, Namibia and South Africa, Hartl said.

He added that the WHO was doing its best to limit the effects of the A/H1N1 pandemic on the African continent.

The A/H1N1 pandemic, which was announced by the WHO in June, has so far spread to more than 213 countries and overseas territories or communities and killed at least 16,813 people, the UN agency said in a latest update.

The most active areas of pandemic influenza transmission are now in Southeast Asia and West Africa.

(Xinhua News Agency March 20, 2010)