Child vaccination rates around the world are stagnating and have still not returned to their pre-Covid-19 pandemic levels, the UN warned on Monday July 15. “Compared to the level of 2019, before the pandemic, 2.7 million more children were still not vaccinated, or incompletely, in 2023,” said the United Nations …
Read More »Resumption of childhood vaccinations around the world
Immunization of children around the world, which fell during the Covid-19 pandemic, is starting to recover but remains below the level before the health crisis, the UN said on Tuesday. “This is good news. On average, countries around the world are recovering and getting closer to the level of immunization …
Read More »Good news as the world now has a vaccine against malaria
The World Health Organization on Wednesday endorsed the RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine, the first against the mosquito-borne disease that kills more than 400,000 people a year, mostly African children. The move follows a review of a pilot program rolled out since 2019 in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi in which more than …
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