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App helps remove vaccine barriers for families

Vaccines help the immune system to recognize and fight many types of diseases, from viral illnesses like COVID-19 to bacterial infections like tetanus. In 2024, the United States C...

Protecting tamariki through free immunisation services

By East Health Trust, www.easthealth.co.nz At your local East Health GP clinic, childhood immunisation is more than a service – it’s a vital part of keeping our east Auckland commu...

Иммунизация в Мангистау: какие прививки делают детям и взрослым

Ежегодно в последнюю неделю апреля - с 24 по 30 число - во всем мире проходит Всемирная неделя иммунизации, которую поддерживают более 180 стран на всех континентах. Вакцинация при...

India sends 13 tonnes of BCG vaccines to Afghanistan to boost child immunisation

New Delhi [India], April 14 (ANI): India on Tuesday said that it has delivered 13 tonnes of Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccines along with related dry material to support Afghan...

Rule-change sees more people getting immunised sooner, midwives say

A rule change in February means midwives are able to give a wider range of funded immunisations from pregnancy until babies are a year old.

Management of drinking water and vaccination procedures: a strategic pairing for effective immunization

Vaccination via drinking water is one of the cornerstones of modern poultry production and accounts for the majority of immunization procedures carried out during the rearing and p...

Immunization Initiative Reduces Child Mortality in Zimbabwe

In 2025, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) publicly recognized the government of Zimbabwe for its investments in the health and safety of its children. In October 2025, Z...

Talking to Your Healthcare Provider About Vaccines

I was seven months pregnant in 1990 when I came down with a raging case of chickenpox. We were terrified we’d lose our son. In the early stages of pregnancy, chickenpox, also known...

Vaccines are lifesavers, WHO insists as world immunisation week begins

WHO confirms vaccines save lives, having prevented over 150 million deaths in 50 years. Learn about World Immunisation Week and global health efforts. Read More: https://punchng.c...

Village Health Workers Close the Immunization gap in Lesotho

In Lesotho’s mountain communities, a missed vaccine is often not just a missed appointment. It can result from distance, transport costs, difficult terrain or uncertainty about whe...

Immunization Awareness: CHIP promotes vaccine uptake in KP through culturally relevant messaging

Maternal RSV vaccination and infant nirsevimab immunization found safe and effective

Maternal respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccination and infant nirsevimab immunization, administered alone or sequentially, are safe and effective, according to a study publishe...

West Lothian health: Immunisation figures show vaccination uptake above Scottish average

Local clinics lead to turnaround on previous poor uptake

RSV vaccine safe and effective but expensive, says HIQA

Immunisation against RSV is safe and effective, but very expensive, HIQA has said.

Vaccinations in Portugal: The Portuguese Vaccine System

Portugal is known for having an effective national vaccination program and generally a positive public attitude towards vaccines. The vaccination rate in Portugal for measles, mump...

What is immunotherapy and how does it treat cancer and other conditions?

From infections and allergies to brain diseases and autoimmune disorders, a wave of trials offers hopeClinical trials of immunotherapies have rocketed in the past decade as researc...

Africa: Largest Catch-Up Initiative Delivers Over 100 Million Childhood Vaccinations

[WHO] The Big Catch-Up, launched during World Immunization Week 2023, has delivered over 100 million vaccine doses to an estimated 18.3 million children across 36 countries Around...

Pakistan's immunisation success: now comes the last-mile push

Progress in immunisation is real, but reaching the last 400,000 children is key

Pakistan's immunisation success: now comes the last-mile push

Progress in immunisation is real, but reaching the last 400,000 children is key

Health worker training program to improve vaccine communication leads to spinout social enterprise

A training initiative to improve UK health workers' vaccine conversations is proving so successful that a University of Bristol-led spinout has been created to continue the importa...

The Value of Vaccines

The value of vaccines BY JAIA LENT As a parent and grandparent, Bette Hoxie knows the value of vaccines. Reflecting back to her early years, Bette recalls:  I remember early in 197...

Pregnancy vaccine reduces baby hospital admissions for RSV by 80%

A study confirms the vaccine gives excellent protection for babies against life-threatening chest infections.

PHCC and HMC Offer Free RSV Vaccine for Pregnant Women

The Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) encourages pregnant women to receive the Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccine between weeks 28 and 36 of pregnancy to help protect newborn...

For every generation, vaccines work and they have saved over 150 million lives: WHO

Over the past 50 years, vaccines have saved more than 150 million lives, as ordinary people chose to protect themselves, their children and their communities from diseases like mea...