Mpox vaccines: WHO advisers back protection for children at risk
Children at risk of mpox in communities experiencing an outbreak should be included in targeted vaccination, WHO’s vaccine advisers have ...
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HPV35: The gap in Nigeria’s cervical cancer vaccine protection
A cancer-causing HPV type found in Nigerian women remains outside the types directly targeted by widely used HPV vaccines, drawing ...
Vaccine funding shortfalls threaten immunisation gains, WHO warns
Countries facing tighter immunisation budgets should protect vaccines already being delivered through national programmes, WHO’s advisers have warned, as governments ...
Social media use linked to better life ratings among young Nigerians
The finding adds a Nigerian perspective to the debate about social media and wellbeing, but does not establish that spending ...
Zambia Confirms First Case of Mpox
The Ministry of Health in Zambia, through the Zambia National Public Health Institute (ZNPHI), has confirmed the country's first case ...
Prioritizing public health in climate change conversations
While the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) hosted in Glasgow between 31 October – 13 November 2021 ...
How DR Congo’s Ebola outbreak became a Public Health Emergency of International Concern
On 17 July 2019, the Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in the ...
700 million children immunised, 10 million lives saved by Gavi since 2000
At its high level conference held in UAE, Vaccine Alliance Gavi also announced new and expanded partnerships
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