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Lassa virus endemic area may expand dramatically in coming decades

New analysis by scientists at Scripps Research and University of Brussels finds that climate change and other factors could soon make deadly Lassa fever a much bigger public health problem in Africa In the study, which...

29 September, 2022

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mRNA HIV vaccine candidate launches first-in-Africa study

The nonprofit scientific research organization IAVI and Massachusetts-based Moderna, Inc. recently announced that a Phase I clinical trial of an mRNA HIV vaccine antigen (mRNA-1644) will soon launch at the Center for...

23 May, 2022

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Noma, a neglected tropical disease?

Noma is also known as necrotizing ulcerative stomatitis or cancrum oris, a severely debilitating orofacial infection. It has been known for centuries and was already reported by Hippocrates and other physicians of the...

30 March, 2022

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Researchers unveil progress and challenges in introducing typhoid conjugate vaccine in Africa/Asia

Each year there are nearly 11 million cases of typhoid, a disease that is spread through contaminated food, drink and water. Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine are leading an international...

23 March, 2019

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First new HIV vaccine efficacy study in 7 years has begun

South Africa hosts historic NIH-supported clinical trial The first HIV vaccine efficacy study to launch anywhere in seven years is now testing whether an experimental vaccine regimen safely prevents HIV infection among...

29 November, 2016

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World’s first malaria vaccine set for 2018 rollout in Africa after UN health agency secures funding

Having secured the funds for the initial phase of the deployment of the world’s first malaria vaccine, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced it will be rolled out in sub-Saharan Africa and immunization campaigns...

23 November, 2016

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African HIV trials could create world’s first vaccine

South Africa is on track to produce the world’s first licensed HIV/AIDS vaccine. During the 21st International AIDS Conference in South Africa last month (18-22 July ), Glenda Gray, president of the South African...

19 August, 2016

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WHO plans to stretch vaccine as yellow fever persists in Africa

Yellow fever still stubbornly persists in Angola’s main hot spot, despite a major influx of vaccine, with the outbreak spreading to new areas, the World Health Organization (WHO) said, as news emerged that WHO...

10 June, 2016

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Vaccine cuts rate of major disease in African children in half

A vaccine against pneumococcal disease, which is a major killer of children in Africa, has cut the disease rate by more than half, new research has found. The study, involving Otago researcher Professor Philip Hill...

16 March, 2016

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Scientists mark ‘stunning success’ of vaccine in virtually ridding Africa of meningitis A

Five years after the introduction of an affordable conjugate meningitis A vaccine, immunization has led to the control and near elimination of deadly meningitis A disease in the African “meningitis belt.” In...

12 November, 2015

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