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 […]
A Tale of Two Vaccines — Why Price Discounts for Developing Countries Show Limits
By: Tido von Shoen-Angerer 24 November 2010 GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) was caught red-handed last week selling Synflorix, a vaccine that protects children from pneumococcal disease, for USD $150 in Uganda — European prices, in effect — when at the same time, the pharmaceutical company is withholding the same vaccine from an international subsidy that hopes to […]
Two million Ugandan children targeted for polio immunizations
Press Release by UNICEF Posted 19 November 2020 KAMPALA, – In response to the polio case detected in the Bugiri district in mid-October, the Ministry of Health, WHO and UNICEF will begin the first round of supplemental polio immunizations from Saturday November 20 to Monday November 22. “Over two million children up to age 5 […]
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 […]
Will There Be More Chronically Ill and Developmentally-challenged Children in Pennsylvania?
By: Catherine Frompovich 05 January 2011 (excerpts) Back on May 28, 2010 the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania made changes to its immunization code to be effective August 1, 2011. What children in Pennsylvania will be required to have in vaccinations in order to attend school is taken directly from the code. One of the apparent—and growing—issues […]
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