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Fingerprints to track child vaccination histories in developing countries

Multispectral imaging fingerprint sensors are to be used as part of a tracking solution to stop vaccine waste for millions of Africans not yet vaccinated. Until now, vaccine delivery has been hampered by ineffective...

14 November, 2013

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Ethiopia becomes the 17th country to introduce rotavirus vaccine with GAVI Alliance support

Ethiopia will begin protecting the 2.8 million children born in the country each year with a vaccine against rotavirus, which leads to severe, and often fatal, diarrhoea. The country has one of the greatest burdens of...

8 November, 2013

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Malaria vaccine: India, Africa don’t get hopes up

As countries like India and Africa – hotbeds for malaria – await the world’s first vaccine against the disease, a leading expert said the results of clinical trials were “modestly...

29 October, 2013

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Zimbabwe: Researchers claim Aids vaccine breakthrough

Researchers have made a breakthrough in the search for a vaccine that could protect people from acquiring HIV after preliminary studies on monkeys showed a 50 percent chance of protection against the virus. Speaking at...

15 October, 2013

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New meningitis vaccine slashes cases by 94 per cent

A new vaccine being rolled out in the “meningitis belt” that stretches across north-central Africa has reduced cases of the potentially fatal disease by 94 per cent, doctors reported in The Lancet. Researchers monitored...

30 September, 2013

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As disease rates fall in Africa, EU urged to maintain health aid

African governments are spending more of their own money to combat the AIDS virus, malaria and other health plagues – according to a new report by the United Nations’ AIDS agency and the African Union (AU)...

5 August, 2013

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GAVI aims to improve access to vaccines in Nigeria through supply chains project

Funding for cold chain equipment and improved data collection to support Nigeria’s Saving One Million Lives Initiative. The GAVI Alliance has approved US$ 21 million to help improve vaccine supply chains in Nigeria as...

31 July, 2013

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Mers virus in S. Arabia poses threat to hospitals

The deadly Mers coronavirus that has emerged in Saudi Arabia poses a threat to hospitals because it spreads rapidly and carries a high mortality rate, according to a study out on Thursday. An international team of...

29 July, 2013

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Malaria vaccine ready in 2015, says WHO

From the World Health Organisation (WHO) came cheering news at the weekend that finally a vaccine for malaria may just be three years away. The WHO said at the weekend that malaria vaccine trials are on-going on 11...

16 July, 2013

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Groundbreaking new vaccine will save lives in Somalia

A new vaccine launched in Somalia is one-jab armour against five preventable diseases. At the Medina Mother and Child Health Centre in Mogadishu, 6-month-old Abdul Wahab sleeps peacefully in his mother’s arms...

6 May, 2013

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