NAIROBI, 14 February 2011 – Hundreds of infants in Kenya received their first shots against pneumococcal disease today at a special event to celebrate the global roll out of vaccines targeting the world’s biggest child killer — pneumonia. Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki joined parents, health workers, ambassadors and donors in Nairobi to witness children being […]
Cervical Cancer Vaccine Developed at CU Cancer Center Ready for Trials
Denver Business News 22 September 2010 An experimental cervical cancer vaccine developed by researchers at the University of Colorado Cancer Center in Aurora is ready to begin testing in human clinical trials, the center announced. The vaccine is intended to be less expensive than others now available and therefore better suited for developing countries such […]
HHS provides grants to assist WHO in fighting flu in developing countries
By: Jeffery Bigongiari 1 October 2010 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Biomedical Advanced Research Development Authority has awarded three sets of grants that total $10.4 million in an effort to assist the World Health Organization’s plan to strengthen the capacity of developing countries to produce influenza vaccine. Read the entire […]
