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Oral Cholera Vaccine Could Speed Control Efforts, Trial Finds
An oral vaccine has reduced cases of severe cholera by nearly 40 percent in a key trial in Bangladeshi slums, suggesting the shot could be used routinely to help endemic countries control the life-threatening disease.
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Why Transporting Vegetables Is Not So Different From Delivering Vaccines
Every day in low-income countries throughout the world, tons of fresh fruit and vegetables fail to reach their destinations or become damaged and inedible along the way. By contrast, highly processed foods – likely to include large amounts of fat, sugar or preservatives – reach these same destinations, ready to be eaten by people in need of food. This simultaneous availability of less healthy processed food and shortage of nutritious food is a key factor in the growing combination of undernutrition and obesity throughout many low-income countries.
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Getting Vaccines to People Who Need Them Is the Most Important Issue in Global Health
Fear of vaccines has allowed a host of diseases, including measles and whooping cough, to re-surface around the world in recent years.
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Bill Gates Hopeful of AIDS Vaccine in 10 Years
Billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates, who spends millions of dollars on AIDS drug development, said Friday he hoped for a vaccine against the disease within the next decade as a cure remains far off.
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WHO names Vietnam a new global vaccine supplier
Vietnam has become the 37th country and the fifth in the Western Pacific meeting requirements to produce vaccines for the global market, the World Health Organization said.
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Gavi to heighten engagement with countries transitioning into Vaccine Alliance
The Vaccine Alliance recently announced a series of actions that will support the new goals of the Alliance’s 2016-20 strategy, and the Gavi Board has chosen to assist the countries making the transition into the new practices.
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NDC says no to ‘needless’ Ebola vaccines trial in Volta region
The ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) outfit in the Volta region is warning it will resist any attempt by the government to use Voltarians as “guinea pigs in a needless” Ebola vaccines trial.
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Seashells Inspire Drug, Vaccine Development
Mimicking nature, Australian scientists have developed a protective seashell-inspired capsule to preserve the active biological ingredients needed to create promising new drugs.
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