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....
NPR News New Zealand is experiencing the largest outbreak of measles in over a decade. Public health officials there say the virus is spreading faster than they can quarantine the infected. In England and Wales, officials report more measles cases so far this year than in...
Sarah Boseley, Guardian.co.uk Around 40 million children under the age of five live in what Save the Children is calling "healthcare deserts", according to its new report. They don't get basic vaccines as babies and there is no health worker on hand to supply the oral...
Andrea Gay, The Huffington Post As families pack up for their summer trip abroad, or the kids go off to camp, public health officials around the world have this warning: Everyone should be fully vaccinated against measles, or risk infection. Read more....
Adam Nossiter, The New York Times WATERLOO, Sierra Leone — The paramedic’s eyes were bloodshot, his features drawn. Pregnant women jammed into the darkened concrete bunker, just as they had yesterday and would tomorrow. The increase in patients had been fivefold, or tenfold. The exhausted paramedic...
Dr K Zaman, The Daily Star Every year, hundreds of thousands of children in Bangladesh are brought to the hospitals because of a simple disease diarrhoea with a devastating impact. Rotavirus is the leading cause of severe diarrhoea and one of the most easily preventable public...
Haffiya Elyas and Zuleikha Abdel Raziq, Sudan Vision Khartoum - Presidential Advisor Dr. Bilal Ahmed Osman yesterday officially announced the administration of the rotavirus vaccine within the routine Immunization programme in the country. Read more....
Gustav Nossal, The Conversation The Lancet, one of most prestigious medical journals in the world recently published a series of five papers on “the new decade of vaccines”. Read more....
Dr. John Wecker, PATH Resourceful, brave, committed — and perhaps a little addicted — that’s the kind of person it takes to ensure that vaccines reach children in the poorest countries of the world. People like Amani Abdelmoniem Mustafa, the manager of the Expanded Programme on...
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