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

The GAVI Alliance has approved US$ 21 million to help improve vaccine supply chains in Nigeria as part of a partnership aimed at scaling up routine immunization. The funds will be used by Nigeria’s National...

5 August, 2013

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Better supply systems key to enable vaccines to reach children –WHO/UNICEF

The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations International Children’s Fund (UNICEF) say better supply systems are key to enable life-saving vaccines to reach all children. A special immunisation issue...

22 April, 2013

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Injection-free vaccination technique could address global vaccine challenge for HIV, malaria

Scientists at King’s College London have demonstrated the ability to deliver a dried live vaccine to the skin without a traditional needle, and shown for the first time that this technique is powerful enough to...

5 February, 2013

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Innovation award aims to celebrate successful vaccine initiatives in the developing world

Bill Gates has launched an award to celebrate innovation in the field of vaccination health care in the developing world. The award scheme hopes to build on the outstanding progress of NGOs and the health industry...

31 May, 2012

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How polio can be a global emergency when cases are at an all-time low

On Friday, the World Health Assembly, the governing body of the World Health Organization, voted that polio represents a global emergency at the very point at which cases of the deadly, paralysis-causing virus are at an...

28 May, 2012

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World Health Assembly endorses new plan to increase global access to vaccines

Ministers of Health from 194 countries at the Sixty-fifth World Health Assembly today endorsed a landmark Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP), a roadmap to prevent millions of deaths by 2020 through more equitable access...

26 May, 2012

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

Better supply systems key to enable vaccines to reach children –WHO/UNICEF

Injection-free vaccination technique could address global vaccine challenge for HIV, malaria

Innovation award aims to celebrate successful vaccine initiatives in the developing world

How polio can be a global emergency when cases are at an all-time low

World Health Assembly endorses new plan to increase global access to vaccines