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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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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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Majid Al Futtaim Finance partners with GAVI Alliance to fund vaccine programmes in developing nations for Ramadan

Embracing the values of generosity for Ramadan, Majid Al Futtaim Finance, a credit cards and prepaid cards provider, has partnered with the GAVI Alliance to help fund the purchase of vaccines for children in the poorest...

16 July, 2013

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GAVI announces $700 million bond issue to fund child immunization

The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization Alliance announced that millions of the poorest children from around the world might benefit from a $700 million bond issue. GAVI is a public-private global health...

12 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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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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Vaccines: The price of protecting a child from killer diseases

Each year, the lives of two and a half million children are saved because they are protected against killer diseases through vaccination. Vaccinating with new vaccines should save many more lives, but high prices could...

26 March, 2013

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Cervical cancer vaccine: improving access for prevention and control

Cervical cancer is one of the most preventable of all cancers. Screening can detect cervical cell changes before they become cancerous lesions and treatment has excellent survival outcomes. The commercial launch of a...

5 February, 2013

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India’s Serum Institute offers cheap polio vaccine

Indian billionaire Cyrus Poonawalla, founder of the world’s biggest maker of vaccines, will cut the price of polio immunisation and introduce shots for diarrhoea and pneumonia, undercutting Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline...

31 January, 2013

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Vaccination against pneumonia protecting millions of children in developing countries

A vaccine against the leading cause of pneumonia is protecting millions of children in developing countries, according to figures compiled to mark the fourth World Pneumonia Day observed on November 12, according to...

19 November, 2012

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