Vaccines and immunisation
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Bangladesh launches measles vaccination drive as child death toll passes 100
UN assists in emergency vaccination drive as country battles worst surge in cases in years amid fall in vaccin…
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New Zealand Covid response among world’s best but ‘scars’ remain, inquiry finds
Royal commission says response led by Jacinda Ardern was broadly ‘appropriate’, in a wide-ranging report featu…
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Influencers, misinformation and aid cuts: the fight to halt polio in Malawi
A huge vaccination drive has been launched after the country’s first outbreak in years of the paralysing disea…
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‘One jab will do the job’: Pakistan begins rollout of HPV vaccine to millions of girls
Despite vaccination hesitancy, the end may be in sight for cervical cancer, which kills 64% of women with the …
- Global development, Global health, Health, HPV vaccine, India, Society, South and Central Asia, Vaccines and immunisation, World news
India trains thousands of medics to promote vaccine in huge push to end cervical cancer
Vast scheme aims to counter disinformation and increase awareness in country where low HPV vaccine take-up mea…
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‘We learned the hard way’: Samoa remembers a deadly measles outbreak and a visit from RFK Jr
A few months before the outbreak in 2019, Kennedy travelled to Samoa and met with anti-vaccine figures, contri…
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Taliban’s curbs on women add to risk of polio outbreak, health officials warn
Regime suspends polio campaign across Afghanistan over security concerns and women’s role in vaccination drive…
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Global eradication of polio ‘tantalisingly close’ with UK urged to keep up funding
After no reported cases of wild polio for 19 weeks, vaccination efforts boosted at last endemic spots in Pakis…
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India gets its own HPV vaccine to stop 70,000 women dying of cervical cancer a year
It has taken 18 years for India to produce its own affordable version to tackle the country’s second-biggest c…
- Doctors, Genetics, Malaria, Medical research, Science, Thailand, Vaccines and immunisation, World news
Dominic Kwiatkowski obituary
Paediatrician and geneticist determined to save the lives of children in countries where malaria is endemicMal…
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Nearly 60,000 people have died of Covid in China in past five weeks
Death toll only of those who died in hospital and true figure likely to be higher, although officials say peak…
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Chinese flock to Hong Kong to get private Covid booster shots
Travel packages also advertised in Macau as interest grows in mRNA vaccines unavailable on mainlandPrivate ser…
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China bridles as EU states prepare to scale up Covid monitoring
Spain joins Italy in requiring arrivals to show a negative result as Chinese state media calls move ‘discrimin…
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Parents who refused ‘vaccinated blood’ transfusion speak out after court places Baby W in care
New Zealand parents say they will focus on supporting their son, now in the guardianship of his doctors, throu…
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Vaccines are key to China’s zero-Covid exit but scepticism poses challenge
Backing down from existing policies remains a political problem of the first orderChina’s government looks to …