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[ad_1] [GAVI] Antananarivo -- A high-level delegation of the Global Polio Elimination Initiative (GPEI) is...
Since 2017, Pakistani children have been getting vaccinated against the major cause of deadly diarrhoea. Health leaders and workers say the effects are evident – even if there’s further to go.
The Ministry of Health of the United Republic of Tanzania, in partnership with Gavi, UNICEF and WHO, today launched the national multi-age cohort (MAC) vaccination campaign against HPV – the leading cause of cervical cancer.
Vaccines will begin to roll out on 25 April in Sierra Leone – not a moment too soon for a country in which malaria accounts for half of all childhood hospital visits.
They’re doing it out of necessity, and sometimes without much support – and many of them express a strong interest in learning, from each other, what works.
On April 25, Benin will begin administering RTS,S malaria vaccines to children, in a move experts anticipate will turn the tide on a disease that claims more than 10,000 lives a year.
Microchipping is expensive; paper vaccination booklets can get lost or swapped. So how can vaccinators ensure canine community members aren’t at risk of contracting – and transmitting – rabies? There’s an app for that, learns James Karuga.
