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Vaccine Deals a Blow to Meningitis A in Africa
A conjugate vaccine has led to control and near total elimination of meningitis A disease in Africa, according to studies.
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The Dream: 90 percent vaccination rate in Pakistan
Neither red tape nor Taliban has deterred Noor Rakhshani from working on a vaccine problem in her Pakistani homeland.
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‘We’re not winning this fight’
Diarrhea – which is quite treatable – still kills 1,000 per day, and children in low- and middle-income countries continue to experience about three episodes of diarrhea each year. Repeated cases of severe diarrhea, especially during important development stages in a child’s life, can have a lasting impact on physical and cognitive growth.
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BYU Researchers Develop ‘Just-Add-Water’ Method for Frozen Vaccines
Producing and distributing vaccines that protect us from life-threatening new viruses could be as simple as just adding water.
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Hilleman to Invest in R&D for Low-Cost Vaccines
While the incidence of meningitis or meningococcal disease in India is low, the available vaccine for the disease is ‘narrow’ and extremely expensive, says Davinder Gill, CEO, Hilleman Laboratories, a ‘non-profit joint venture’ between US pharma major Merck and UK-based Wellcome Trust.
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Africa’s Meningitis A Vaccine: How Partnership Replaced ‘Big Pharma’
Four years after it was first used in a mass vaccination campaign, the MenAfriVac vaccine has achieved an extraordinary outcome; cases of meningitis A have dropped to almost zero in the epidemic belt across Africa.
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GSK Sets 10-year Price Reduction For Pneumococcal Vaccines
The pharmaceutical gaint, GlaxoSmithKline has announced a 10-year steady reduction in price of pneumococcal vaccines to enable Nigeria continue to purchase vaccines at prices meant for low-income countries still dependent on support from the Global Alliance for Vaccine Initiative (GAVI).
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Tackling the World’s Deadliest Childhood Disease
Few people in the developed world would ever guess that pneumonia kills more children under the age of 5 than any other disease. This serious respiratory infection takes the lives of nearly a million children each year, with the vast majority of these deaths occurring in developing countries.
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