•Vaccine syringe Global childhood immunisation coverage stalled in 2023, leaving 2.7 million additional children under-vaccinated compared to pre-pandemic levels in 2019, according to data published today by the World Health Organisation and the United Nations Children’s Fund. The latest WHO and UNICEF estimates of national immunisation covera...
•Cholera patients In the wake of the cholera outbreak in the country, Nigeria has initiated discussions with the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, Gavi, towards obtaining emergency supplies of the oral cholera vaccine (OCV) as the country battles the disease amid a global shortage of the vaccine. The Director-General of the Nigeri...
•Patients being treated for cholera As the death toll from the latest cholera outbreak hits 40, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control says the country does not have enough vaccines. According to the Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr Jide Idris, Nigeria has placed an order for more cholera […]...
•AstraZeneca The Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine is being withdrawn worldwide months after the pharmaceutical giant, admitted for the first time in court documents, that it can cause a rare and dangerous side effect. The vaccine can no longer be used in the European Union after the company voluntarily withdrew its “marketing authorisation”. T...
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