By: Natasha Bita, Consumer Editor 04 October 2010 HEALTH authorities are to be alerted instantly to any severe side effects from vaccination in the first “real-time” immunisation database. The Australian Health Ministers Conference will debate Western Australia’s plan to set up an online monitoring system for immunisation, to avoid a repeat of this year’s […]
Clinical Update
Vaccine Components and Constituents: responding to consumer concerns By: Barbara E. Eldred, et al. 20 February 2006 Posted by Norma Erickson, 10 September 2010 The World Health Organization states “The two public health interventions that have had the greatest impact on the world’s health are clean water and vaccines” However, rates of vaccination uptake […]
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 […]
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 […]
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