The number of lives lost due to viral hepatitis infections is increasing and already accounts for 3,500 deaths daily, according to this report by the World Health Organization (WHO). This is the first consolidated WHO report on viral hepatitis epidemiology, service coverage and product access, with improved data for action. …
The Ghana Heath Service (GHS) to introduce a new vaccine into the routine immunization throughout the country at every health facility on June 1, 2018. Dr Kwasi Yeboah-Awudzi, the Ashanti Regional Deputy Director of Public Health who gave the hint said the Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV) would be given to …
A major vaccination campaign is under way in the Democratic Republic of Congo where more cases of infection from the Ebola virus have been discovered. Up to 10 people have died and 35 cases have been confirmed. At least 11,000 people died in a series of outbreaks across West Africa …
Children under the age of five maybe facing a bleak future as the 2017 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey, MICS, show that over 75 percent of Nigeria's children age 0 to 59 months were not fully immunized despite the fact that vaccine preventable diseases account for 40 percent of all childhood …
Dog rabies annually causes 24,000–70,000 deaths globally. We built a spreadsheet tool, RabiesEcon, to aid public health officials to estimate the cost-effectiveness of dog rabies vaccination programs in East Africa. Original Source
While Africa has seen tremendous progress towards access to immunization, one in five African children still lack access to all the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended life-saving vaccines, a threat not only to the health of families, but also to the strength of economies and equity in African societies. The …
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the most common cause of bronchiolitis in infants. Maternal immunization is an option to increase maternal antibody levels and protect infants from infection. Here we assess the efficacy of virus-like particle (VLP) vaccine candidates containing stabilized pre-fusion (pre-F) or post-fusion (post-F) conformations of the RSV …
Maputo — The Mozambican Health Ministry vaccinated almost seven million children against measles and rubeola (also known as German measles) in April, according to a report in Monday's issue of the Maputo daily "Noticias". The first phase in the national vaccination campaign against these two diseases ran from 9 to …
With the misinformation campaign affecting the ambitious Measles-Rubella vaccination programme, the Punjab Government on Thursday took the help of the experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) to dispel the same. Punjab Health and Family Welfare Minister Brahm Mohindra, PGIMER’s …
HOIMA- The Government, with support from the World Health Organisation (WHO) is conducting a campaign to vaccinate more than 360,000 people against cholera in six hotspot areas of Hoima district. The immunisation drive is part of efforts to control an ongoing cholera outbreak which has affected both refugees from the …
These immunisation programmes have various degrees of community engagement. The latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS) data for 2015-16 shows that 62 per cent of Indian children aged 12-23 months are fully immunised. Although the coverage has increased by 18.5 percentage points in the past decade, India has a long …
Nairobi — Full Immunization Coverage (FIC) declined from 69 per cent in 2016 to 63 per cent last year, the lowest in five years according to the latest economic survey released by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS). The huge decline in 2017 was attributed to strikes by doctors …
Uganda has launched a major cholera vaccination campaign in an effort to contain an outbreak that has killed 45 people in the country’s overcrowded refugee camps this year. With the rainy season approaching, tens of thousands of people who have fled violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo are being …
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries is working on a ‘decree’ that would make the livestock vaccination compulsory. The TVLA revealed yesterday that to date, five types of the vaccines had been produced since 2014 and that the remaining six were at various stages of trial. Dr Furaha Mramba, …
Pune: Experts associated with the Indian Academy of Paediatrics’ (IAP) city chapter have extended full support to the government’s immunisation efforts to save lives of children below five from vaccine-preventable diseases. The country’s aim is to meet the Sustainable Development Goals by reducing neonatal mortality to at least as low …
Vaccination has successfully reduced the burden of infectious diseases worldwide, but stagnating immunization coverage and lack of effective vaccines for many endemic and newly emerging pathogens pose a threat to sustainable global health. In light of World Immunization Week 2018, which highlights the importance of high vaccination coverage, Nature Communications …
Vaccine causes complications, 3 deaths reported. Hyderabad: Dengue vaccine is not for all and according to a review data of World Health Organisation (WHO) it has led to complications in children and three deaths have been recorded in the Philippines where the vaccine is being given. Due to this reason, …
Kenyan researchers said on Saturday that they plan to use a combination of new drugs as well as a vaccine in order to end malaria menace in the country. Lucas Otieno, Deputy Director of Clinical Operations at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), told Xinhua in Nairobi that the illness …
In 2017, there were 6,144 cases of H1N1 virus and 778 deaths across Maharashtra while in 2016, there were 82 cases of H1N1 virus and 22 deaths. As many as 33,000 people across Maharashtra, 23,000 of them pregnant women and many of them diabetes patients, have been vaccinated against H1N1 …
Over the 16-year period studied, consumption of antibiotics more than doubled in India Global consumption of antibiotics has soared since the year 2000, stoking calls for new policies to rein in usage – and fueling fears that the worldwide threat posed by drug-resistant superbugs will spiral out of control, researchers …
Antibiotic use more than doubled in India between 2000 and 2015, fuelling antibiotic resistance that is making common infections such as E.coli, strep throat, pneumonia and tuberculosis more difficult to treat, according to this new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Antibiotic resistance, driven by …
