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Africa: Despite Pandemic Setbacks, WHO Vows Continued Fight for Global Immunization
allAfrica, 25 April 2024
World Immunization Week celebrates a remarkable milestone - 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI). This global initiative has been instrumental in saving… Read more »
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Nigeria: Global Immunisation Efforts Saved Over 154m Lives in 50 Years - Study
Vanguard, 24 April 2024
As Nigeria joined the rest of the world on Wednesday to mark this year's World Immunisation Week, a landmark study has revealed that global immunisation efforts have saved an… Read more »
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Africa: Global Immunization Efforts Have Saved At Least 154 Million Lives Over the Past 50 Years
GAVI, 24 April 2024
A major landmark study just published by The Lancet reveals that global immunization efforts have saved an estimated 154 million lives - or the equivalent of 6 lives every minute… Read more »
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Africa: Over 50 Million Lives Saved in Africa Through Expanded Immunization Programme
WHO-AFRO, 24 April 2024
An estimated 51.2 million lives have been saved through vaccines in the African region over the past 50 years. For every infant life saved over that period, close to 60 years of… Read more »
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Africa: WHO Director-General's Opening Remarks At the Media Briefing - 24 April 2024
WHO, 24 April 2024
Good morning, good afternoon and good evening, Read more »
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Africa: Over 50 Million Lives Saved Through Immunization Effort
GAVI, 24 April 2024
An estimated 51.2 million lives have been saved through vaccines in the African region over the past 50 years. For every infant life saved over that period, close to 60 years of… Read more »
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Madagascar: GPEI Boosts Madagascar's Fight Against Polio and Low Vaccination Rates
GAVI, 24 April 2024
A high-level delegation of the Global Polio Elimination Initiative (GPEI) is in Madagascar to support the country in strengthening routine immunisation while combatting a polio… Read more »
Over 50 Million Lives Saved Through Immunizations in Africa
New research reveals that vaccines have saved over 50 million lives in Africa over the last 50 years, with an average of nearly 60 years of life saved for each death prevented.
Spearheaded by the World Health Organization's (WHO) Expanded Programme on Immunisation launched in 1974, the initiative initially provided six vaccines and now offers 13, supported by the UN and Gavi. Notable successes include a substantial reduction in measles deaths, sharp declines in meningitis fatalities, and maternal and neonatal tetanus cases. The continent was declared free of indigenous wild poliovirus in 2022.
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The World Health Organisation (WHO), UNICEF, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, along with Immunization Agenda 2030 and many other global and ... Read more »
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has prequalified a new oral cholera vaccine, Euvichol-S, on April 12. This inactivated vaccine offers similar efficacy to existing options Read more »
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Liberia is one of 12 African countries which started administering their first anti-malaria vaccine. The government had announced that 88,780 vaccine vials are already available, ... Read more »
