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Africa: Global Childhood Immunization Coverage Inches Forward Despite Conflict and Hesitancy - Unicef, WHO

[WHO] In 2025, 90% of infants globally - or nearly 116 million - received at least one dose of a diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTP) vaccine, and 85% - or 110 million - complet...

NIGERIA’S IMMUNISATION GAP 

Nigeria must move beyond campaign-style vaccination towards routine protection, argues PAT ONUKWULI  Nigeria’s routine immunisation story presents a troubling contradiction: vaccin...

South Africa: Vaccinate Your Children to Prevent Diseases

[SAnews.gov.za] Gauteng Health MEC Faith Mazibuko has urged parents and caregivers to keep children up to date on routine immunisations, warning that missing these critical vaccine...

Low Adult Vaccination Uptake Raises Concern Over Preventable Diseases

They stressed that adult immunisation should be viewed as part of lifelong preventive healthcare rather than being limited to childhood.

Childhood vaccination rate increases slightly, but millions remain unprotected

Global childhood immunization programmes continued to recover in 2025, but conflict, poverty and growing vaccine hesitancy are still leaving millions vulnerable to preventable dise...

India's immunization program reduced child mortality but highlights need for coordinating health, education policies

Each year, approximately 700,000 children worldwide die from diseases that vaccines could have prevented, nearly all of them in low- and middle-income countries. New research from...

New study finds hexavalent vaccine could make India's immunization program more efficient and family-friendly

A study appearing in Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics found that introducing the hexavalent (six-in-one) vaccine into India's Universal Immunization Program (UIP) could impr...

HSE urges parents to avail of free RSV immunisation for babies as nationwide rollout set to begin

Expert explainer: Strategies to improve childhood vaccination uptake

Protecting children is a shared responsibility, says health and rehabilitation sciences Ph.D. candidate Meron Mengistu. As a graduate researcher in the Faculty of Health Sciences a...

Families encouraged to catch up on children’s vaccinations

Health and care partners across West Yorkshire are encouraging parents and carers to make sure their children are protected against measles and other serious childhood illnesses by...

Universal RSV vaccination programme could free up thousands of hospital beds

International evidence has shown immunisation programmes reduces hospitalisations from respiratory syncytial virus by up to 90 percent.

There's a reason child vaccination rates are falling - and it's not social media

As child immunisation rates fall across the UK, one clinic in west Yorkshire is taking aggressive steps to boost immunisations

National Immunization Awareness Month highlights importance of routine childhood vaccines

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WNKY) — August is National Immunization Awareness Month, a time dedicated to encouraging families to stay informed about recommended vaccinations and speak with...

How vaccine access is protecting children in Somaliland

New vaccine storage at one community health facility in rural Somaliland is bringing routine immunizations closer to home, helping stop measles outbreaks, and strengthening local h...

J&K records over 100% child immunisation coverage: Centre

Jammu and Kashmir has recorded over 100 per cent coverage in key child immunisation indicators, with the Union Government attributing the higher figures to interstate movement of b...

Hong Kong urges parents not to delay childhood vaccinations as US limits jabs

Hong Kong authorities have defended the city’s childhood vaccination programme after the United States scaled back its immunisation recommendations, stressing that public health po...

Maternal RSV vaccine reduces infant RSV-associated hospitalizations by 80% through six months of life

Australia's RSV Maternal and Infant Protection Program is delivering strong protection for babies, with new research from The Kids Research Institute Australia showing RSV vaccinat...

Offer teenagers a meningitis B vaccine on NHS, advisers tell UK government

JCVI says children should have one or two doses of menB vaccine at age 15, depending on if they had vaccine as a babyAll teenagers across the UK should be offered a meningitis vacc...

Maternal RSV vaccines protect infants: updated review of efficacy and safety

Respiratory syncytial virus, better known as RSV, has long been one of the most feared words in paediatric medicine, a pathogen so contagious that nearly every child is infected be...

Winter Is Coming: How Vaccines Help Protect Against Respiratory Illness

FRIDAY, Aug. 14, 2026 — August is National Immunization Awareness Month – the perfect time to prepare for the viruses and bacteria that spread each fall and winter. These germs ca...

Trial evaluates maternal vaccine to protect newborns from Group B Streptococcus

Researchers from the Wits Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics (Wits VIDA) Research Unit at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) have played a leading role in an intern...

13.5m children miss vaccines in 2025 – WHO, UNICEF

… Raise alarm over widening global immunisation gapBy Chioma Obinna No fewer than 13.5 million infants missed all routine vaccines in 2025, as the World Health Organisation (WHO) a...

Starting uni? What you need to know about the meningitis B vaccine in Scotland

The vaccine will be offered to older teenagers and new college and university students who are at higher risk of exposure.

Busted! 5 Myths About Vaccines

August is National Immunization Awareness Month.Remember the Great Polio Scare of 2025?Of course you don’t! Thanks to vaccines, the deadly poliovirus was eliminated in the U.S. in...