Peg Willingham, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation A significant milestone in the global effort to eliminate measles has been reached: the Measles Initiative has immunized its one billionth child. Read more....
Manish Gautam, eKantipur.com In its comprehensive multi-year plan 2011-16 under the National Immunisation Programme, the government will introduce new vaccines in the country. It intends to bring in typhoid, MR, rotavirus and pneumonia vaccines. Read more....
Thirty years ago a World Health Organisation team led by Frank Fenner and DA Henderson celebrated the eradication of smallpox. This year in Rome, celebrations were held for the eradication of rinderpest - that's a virus that infects cattle but shares a common ancestor with measles. That...
Dr Mukesh Kapila; Undersecretary General, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies & Co-director of CIGI / IFRC project As the MDG 2015 deadline looms closer, could we not aspire to do more, do better and reach further, by shaping a new development model...
Seth Berkley is CEO, Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI), which gave a record $165 million to India to induct the pentavalent vaccine into the universal immunisation programme. Penta combines protection against DPT, Hepatitis B and, for the first time, Hib, the leading cause...
Pushpa Narayan, The Times of India CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu government will soon pay mothers who get their newborns vaccinated as per the immunization schedule. Under the Muthulakshmi Reddy Scheme, each pregnant woman will get a smart card with her medical details. The health department will deposit...
UN News Centre 1 August 2011 – The United Nations and its partners are promoting the use of all possible means of communication, including social networking, blogs and even flash mobs, to get the message out on the benefits of breastfeeding beyond clinics and delivery rooms...
Press Information Bureau, Government of India The Union Health & Family Welfare Minister Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad has said that several new initiatives have helped India achieve improved coverage and quality of immunization. Shri Azad was addressing the High Level Ministerial Meeting of South East...
UNICEF NEW YORK/GENEVA, 30 July 2011 - During World Breastfeeding Week, UNICEF joins global partners in calling for the benefits of breastfeeding to be broadcast beyond clinics and delivery rooms to the public at large, ensuring that young people both in the developing world and in...
Katy Migiro, AlertNet NAIROBI (AlertNet) – Drug shortages will hamper a mass vaccination campaign due to begin in Kenya on Monday following a surge in measles cases among Somali refugees and neighbouring communities, a medical charity says. Read more....
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