Even as India is less than a year away from being declared polio free, experts asked for cautious administration of vaccine to keep the virus in check. “India reported the last wild polio virus type 1 case in...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and partners have stepped up vaccination campaigns in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Turkey amid measles outbreaks in a region already struggling to provide humanitarian...
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...
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...
Insufficient funding, lawlessness and the vaccination workers’ failure to operate in restive areas in endemic countries have emerged as major challenges to a new $5.5 billion global plan to halt all polio outbreaks by...
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...
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...
The United Nations and its partners announced that Pakistan has become the first country in South Asia to introduce a new vaccine that protects children from pneumonia, the leading killer of children worldwide. The UN...
Efforts to eliminate meningitis in 26 at-risk countries will take a major step forward over the next three months as 50 million people receive crucial vaccinations in seven African countries. Thanks to concerted efforts...
The Ministry of Health, in its efforts to reduce the incidence of meningitis epidemic that regularly hits the northern sector of Ghana, has introduced a new vaccine “Meningitis A Conjugate Vaccine” (MenAfriVac) to...