By Tido von Schoen-Angerer, Executive Director of Access to Essential Medicines Campaign, Doctors Without Borders Last week saw the announcement of a new weapon in the fight against malaria. GlaxoSmithKline, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the PATH Initiative together announced on Tuesday early results of a clinical trial in Africa of a malaria vaccine that cuts […]
HPV vaccine tolerated across three dosing schedules in Vietnam
Neuzil KM. JAMA. 2011;305:1424-1431. The quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine was immunogenic and well tolerated on alternative dosing schedules and comparable with the safety profiles of standard vaccine schedules among adolescent girls in Vietnam, according to new findings presented during a Journal of the American Medical Association media briefing. “Most low-resource countries do not have adolescent […]
An Advance for a Newborn Vaccine Approach
Study in blood from Gambian infants suggests possible efficacy in developing-world settings BOSTON, April 13, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Infectious disease is a huge cause of death globally, and is a particular threat to newborns whose immune systems respond poorly to most vaccines. A new approach developed at Children’s Hospital Boston, using an adjuvant (an agent […]
First African country introduces GSK's pneumococcal vaccine
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced the incorporation of its pneumococcal vaccine into the Kenyan national immunisation programme. Kenya is the first African country to receive pneumococcal vaccines through the innovative financing mechanism known as the Advance Market Commitment (AMC), which is designed to bring heavily discounted vaccines to children living in the world’s poorest countries. At a […]
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Partner to Immunize Children
Together pledge $100 million to fight preventable diseases in Afghanistan and Pakistan SEATTLE and ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, Jan. 26, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, and Bill Gates, Co-Chair of the Bill & […]
