Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report 19 January 2011 During the WHO’s executive board meeting Monday, WHO Director-General Margaret Chan expressed concerns over what she called a “‘worrisome’ public mistrust of vaccines, following signs of a tail-off in flu vaccination,” Agence France-Presse reports (1/18). Noting that some countries continue to report cases of H1N1 (swine […]
Swine flu vaccines go waste in Pakistan
sify news 22 January 2011 Islamabad, Jan 22 (IANS) District health officials in Pakistan are ‘not very keen’ to use swine flu vaccines donated by the World Health Organisation (WHO), thus resulting in the country’s failure to control the disease, the WHO has said. In March 2010, about 3.1 million doses of Monovalent Influenza vaccine […]
WHO to launch cheap meningitis vaccine in Africa
By: Kate Killand 22 November 2010 More than 12 million people in Burkino Faso will be the first to receive a new meningitis vaccine as part of an Africa-wide immunization plan, the World Health Organisation said on Monday. The vaccine, called MenAfriVac and made by Serum Institute of India, will be used to inoculate 450 […]
Mass Immunization Hopes to Stop Polio in Angola
By: Roxel 02 October 2010 Angola starts its bid to immunize children below five years old in accordance with the nation’s campaign to eradicate polio. The mass vaccination is a part of the countries series of programs to stop polio epidemic that accounts for the 24 children who are paralyzed in this year alone. According […]
GAVI and WHO: Vaccine Accountability Demanded
Lee and Harmer’s editorial marking 10 years of Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI)1 was published before discussion of a controversial press release issued by the World Health Organization jointly with GAVI and others in 2007 after the Bangladesh study on Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib) vaccination.2 3 4 The press release suggested that […]
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