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The International examines the findings that "despite child vaccinations hitting a record-high with about 106 million infants being immunised this year, life-saving vaccines fail to reach some 24 mill...
Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Full_Report (pdf* format - 3.2 Mbytes) Key Points - Triple threat of cholera, Influenza A H1N1 and measles outbreaks reported. - New wave of...
15 per cent of children will be susceptible even when they are immunised with a single dose — Photo: N. Sridharan Finally: Two-dose regimen will soon become a reality in some of the States India has failed in controlling...
In this Friday, Oct. 30, 2009 picture a mother watches over her child who is suffering from severe malaria in the Siaya hospital in Western Kenya. A new vaccine being tested here is giving the medical community hope that for...
Poor progress is made in India’s effort to control measles 1 New Delhi India’s attempts to control measles have failed, public health experts told a national round table consultation last week, with the estimated number of...
New American research shows that there could be a link between the controversial MMR triple vaccine and autism and bowel disease in children. The study appears to confirm the findings of British doctor Andrew Wakefield, who...
APIA, Samoa, 2 November 2009 – UNICEF and the World Health Organisation (WHO) are giving full support to a nationwide measles and Vitamin A immunization campaign by the Samoan Government. The campaign aims to protect more than...
About one in five children around the world dies from pneumonia - more than from measles, malaria and HIV combined. But not many people know that. That's why the is sponsoring the first World Pneumonia Day, Monday, November...
In a recent issue of WIRED, the odd grassroots movement against vaccines gets discussed. The idea that childhood vaccines are bad, is just one more sign that in America, bad science, takes root and flourishes. Science and data...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fear of adverse events such as miscarriages, rare neurological conditions and ordinary heart attacks will discourage some people from participating in mass vaccination efforts to fight swine flu, but...
