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| 25 December 2008 | Ministry of Public Health takes another stride towards the reduction of infant mortality rate by introducing Heamophilus influenza type B (HIB) vaccine into the routine Expanded Program of Immunization (EPI) Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan - Ministry of public health takes another important step towards reduction of infant mortality rate by introducing the new vaccine of Heamophilus influenza type B (HIB) in the framework of EPI. Since Afghanistan is among the countries with high infant mortality rate and one of the main underlying causes of infant mortality is some preventable childhood diseases, with launching this new vaccine the number of implemented vaccines in the EPI is reaching to 8 ( other seven are Dyphtria, whooping cough, Tetanus, BCG, Polio, Hepatitis B virus measles vaccines) and will reduce the number of deaths among children Read more |
| 21 December 2008 | State tops list of pneumonia deaths The Telegraph - Bengal has recorded the highest number of child deaths from pneumococcal diseases in the past two years. Read more |
| 14 December 2008 | 23,000 children die of type-B haemophilia every year
The Daily Times - About 23,000 children die of haemophilia influenza type-B (HI-B) in Pakistan every year, sources told Daily Times on Saturday. Read more |
| 09 December 2008 | 28 vehicles handed over to EPI co-ordinators Daily Times - NWFP Minister for Health Syed Zahir Ali Shah on Sunday handed over keys of 28 vehicles to Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) coordinators to strengthen immunisation activities in the province aimed at stopping the spread of polio virus. Read more |
| 04 December 2008 | Global measles deaths drop by 74% Joint News Release WHO/UNICEF/American Red Cross/CDC/UN Foundation - Measles deaths worldwide fell by 74% between 2000 and 2007, from an estimated 750 000 to 197 000. In addition, the Eastern Mediterranean region*, which includes countries such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, and Sudan, has cut measles deaths by a remarkable 90% during the same period. By reducing measles deaths from 96 000 to 10 000, the region has achieved the United Nations goal to reduce measles deaths by 90% by 2010, three years early. Read more |
| 03 December 2008 | The Pros (and Not Many Cons) of Merck’s HPV Vaccine, According to UW’s Laura Koutsky Xconomy - Everyone has human papillomavirus (HPV) crawling all over our skin. This usually doesn’t cause us any harm, but in about 11,000 cases a year in the U.S., sexual activity leads to an infection that causes cervical cancer, which kills about 3,800 women a year. Read more |
| 29 November 2008 | MoPH signs contracts with 2 NGOs for establishing a pilot project on Demand Side Financing and Quality Public Health Course Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan - In order to provide qualitative basic health services to people in rural and remote areas of the country, MoPH signs contracts with 2 non-governmental organizations (1 national and 1 International) for establishing a pilot project on Demand Side Financing and Quality Public Health Course. Read more |
| 22 November 2008 | Merck, Glaxo Vaccines May Be Recommended by WHO for Global Use Bloomberg - Vaccines against rotavirus, the main cause of severe diarrhea in preschoolers, may win recommendation for global use by the World Health Organization, potentially boosting sales for producers Merck & Co. and GlaxoSmithKline Plc. Read more |
| 19 November 2008 | Where lives are cheap The Guardian - Thousands of 12- and 13-year-old girls will be lining up outside their school medical offices this term, some of them shivering, stomachs lurching, waiting for a jab in the arm that it is hoped will prevent them suffering cervical cancer - a particularly unpleasant form of the disease which kills more than 900 women a year in the UK. Read more |
| 17 November 2008 | Pakistan to Vaccinate Children Against Pneumonia-Causing Bacterium Voice of America - Respiratory sickness is one of the biggest killers of young children in the developing world. Each year, millions of children under the age of 5 develop pneumonia from a bacterium called Haemophilus influenza B - or HiB - and hundreds of thousands of them die. HiB is also a major cause of the brain infection meningitis. But, as Rose Hoban reports, the future looks a little brighter for children in Pakistan, where government officials are about to introduce a vaccine to prevent them from becoming infected with HiB. Read more |
| 16 November 2008 | Eastern Africa health experts seek access to vaccines against pneumonia Africa Science News - Although Pneumonia kills more children less than five years in Africa, the disease however receives the least attention in terms of funding. Read more |
| 13 November 2008 | New vaccine bonds likely delayed until 2009 The Guardian/Reuters - New vaccine bonds aimed at European retail investors will probably hit the market in the first half of 2009 instead of 2008 as originally planned because of the turmoil in world markets. Read more |
| 11 November 2008 | "23,000 children die HIB disease annually in Pakistan" The News - A new combination vaccine that will protect children from the bacterium HIB (Haemophilus influenzae type B), the most common cause of deadly pneumonia and meningitis, and four other common childhood diseases, has been introduced by the Government of Pakistan this month. Read more |
| 11 November 2008 | Advance Market Commitments: Bringing Medicines to Developing Nations World Changing - Millions of residents of developing nations die every year from preventable or treatable diseases because the drugs to help them don't yet exist. Pharmaceutical companies are hesitant to develop and produce new drugs when they're unsure they'll be able to recover their investment through sales. As a result, most of the health product R&D is directed at products for developed countries, and within developed countries most products address chronic, not infectious, diseases. Read more |
| 10 November 2008 | Jabs drive for killer diseases planned The Daily Nation - Kenyan children will be vaccinated against pneumonia and meningitis from next year. Read more |
| 10 November 2008 | New vaccine for children launched The Standard - The Government is set to introduce a new vaccine against pneumonia and meningitis for children age below five years. Read more |
| 10 November 2008 | A modern crusader Trinity News - No one imagines that the Irish presidential elections would rouse as much excitement as those in the US, especially given the huge disparity in power given to each figurehead, both within their own state and as an effect of their nation’s prowess on the global level. Nonetheless, one of our former heads of state is as respected on the international stage as either of the main candidates in this month’s election. Mary Robinson has recently been given yet another high-standing humanitarian position, having become the chairperson of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation. Read more |
| 07 November 2008 | Immunization saves 3m lives every year: Ghaffar Pakistan Observer - Use of vaccines had resulted in eradication of small pox, elimination of poliomyelitis from most of the industrialized countries, and control of measles, diphtheria, rubella, Hib, tetanus and other disease in many parts of the world. Vaccines are one of the public health greatest successes and immunization is one of the most cost effective health interventions in existence. Read more |
| 06 November 2008 | Transcript of speech given by the Prime Minister in London on health issue Number 10 (UK government) - One of the greatest assemblies ever of men and women who are concerned about health inequalities, and I find it a privilege to be here to be able to address the first session of this conference. Read more |
| 05 November 2008 | Gates urges rich countries not to cut health aid Reuters - Microsoft founder Bill Gates on Wednesday said he was worried the global financial crisis he says could last two to three years might drive rich countries to cut back spending on health aid for the developing world. Read more |
| 04 November 2008 | Two Yellow Fever Cases Spark Fresh Vaccine Campaign - UN UN News Centre - Two boys in northern Burkina Faso have contracted yellow fever in a fresh outbreak of the disease that has already claimed the life of the eldest child, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) reported today. Read more |
| 03 November 2008 | Pakistan introduces vaccine to prevent top child killer Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health - This month, Pakistan is introducing a new combination vaccine that will protect its children against the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) and four other common childhood diseases. Read more |
| 02 November 2008 | Ensuring equal access to life saving drugs The New Nation - More than 100 professional medical societies, institutions and organizations from around the world join the Pneumococcal Awareness Council of Experts (PACE) today to urge governments, donors and industry to assure access to pneumococcal vaccines for every person who needs them worldwide. Their unified Call to Action comes as research released today confirms that available vaccines are not reaching countries in greatest need. As countries around the world consider including pneumococcal vaccine in their national immunization programs, PACE recognizes Rwanda's groundbreaking efforts to introduce the vaccine in Africa and encourages others to make the same commitment. Read more |
| 30 October 2008 | Former UN rights boss to chair vaccines group Reuters - Former Irish President and U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson was elected on Tuesday as chair of the board of GAVI, a group that buys vaccines for the world's poorest children. Read more |
| 29 October 2008 | Investment in human lives essential amid financial crisis afrol News - New data released by World Health Organisation has revealed 3.4 million deaths will be averted in world’s poorest countries through immunisation funded by the GAVI Alliance between 2000 and 2008. Read more |
| 28 October 2008 | The global scourge you never heard of Wolfgang Kerler Daily News/IPS - Although a safe and effective vaccine has been available for eight years now, 1.6 million people still die from pneumococcal diseases every year, making it the number one vaccine-preventable cause of death worldwide. More than half of the victims are children. Read more |
| 28 October 2008 | 3.4 Million Deaths Averted Through GAVI-Funded Immunization Programs Medical News Today - 3.4 million deaths will be averted in the world's poorest countries through immunisation funded by the GAVI Alliance between 2000 and 2008, according to new data released by the World Health Organization (WHO). Read more | YubaNet | Physorg |
| 23 October 2008 | Progress Toward Introduction of Haemophilus influenzae type b Vaccine in Low-Income Countries --- Worldwide, 2004--2007 MacroWorld - Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) disease is estimated to cause 3 million cases of meningitis and severe pneumonia and approximately 386,000 deaths worldwide per year in children aged [lesser than] 5 years (1). Read more |
| 23 October 2008 | Progress in Introduction of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine --- Worldwide, 2000--2008 MacroWorld - Pneumococcal disease is a leading cause of childhood morbidity and mortality globally, causing an estimated 0.7--1.0 million deaths annually among children aged [lesser than] 5 years (1). A pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) that includes seven pneumococcal serotypes (PCV7) first became available in 2000. Studies in the United States have demonstrated that introduction of universal vaccination with PCV7 resulted in a 77% decrease in invasive pneumococcal disease among children aged [lesser than] 5 years and a 39% decrease in hospital admissions for pneumonia among children aged [lesser than] 2 years (2,3). Read more |
| 20 October 2008 | India's first vaccine for cervical cancer launched IANS - MSD Pharmaceuticals India, part of US pharma giant Merck & Co, Monday launched India's first vaccine to help prevent cervical cancer. Read more |
| 19 October 2008 | Life after death Brisbane Times - Grieving mothers in Nicaragua are forced to steal the bodies of their dead babies from the wards of the main children's hospital and carry them home on the bus because they cannot afford the fees to release them from the morgue. Read more |
| 18 October 2008 | Vaccine call for 'silent killer' BBC News - When little Nayeem Hossain became sick at his home in a village in Bangladesh, his family were desperately worried. Read more |
| 16 October 2008 | Governments Urged To Fight Global Child Killer Medical News Today - Pneumococcal disease, one of the world's leading causes of death and serious illness (1), must be recognised as an urgent global health issue together with HIV, malaria and TB, say the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Pneumococcal Disease Prevention in the Developing World in a report launched at the House of Lords yesterday. Between 700,000 and one million children under the age of five die each year from pneumococcal disease, equivalent to malaria and more than AIDS and tuberculosis (2,3). Read more |
| 13 October 2008 | Merck's rotavirus vaccine awarded WHO pre-qualification status Comtex - Merck & Co has announced that Rotateq, the pentavalent rotavirus vaccine that helps prevent rotavirus gastroenteritis in infants and children, has received pre-qualification status from the World Health Organization. Read more | And at |
| 13 October 2008 | From Poverty to Power, How Citizens and States Can Change the World Sudan Vision - The rapid scale-up of global immunization since 2001, though the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization has also brought down the death toll, saving an estimated half - a - million lives. Yet diseases such as measles, diphtheria, and tetanus, which can be prevented with a simple vaccination, account for two to three million-childhood deaths every year. Read more |
| 11 October 2008 | Nigeria struggles to contain poliomyelitis The Lancet - Nigeria has had several setbacks in its bid to control poliomyelitis, including false rumours about vaccine safety. Now public anger over the failure of the ailing health system to deliver for its people threatens to derail the country's eradication campaign. Margaret Harris Cheng reports. Read more |
| 11 October 2008 | Europeans win Nobel prize for discovering HIV and HPV BMJ - The 2008 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine has gone to one German and two French researchers for microbiological detective work that led to the discovery of two families of viruses with a major impact on human health. Almost as noteworthy, say some commentators, is the absence of one US researcher whose contribution was controversial. Read more |
| 07 October 2008 | KARACHI: Sindh to get new vaccines against five diseases soon The Dawn - Like other provinces of the country, infants in Sindh will start getting a new combination of vaccines to contain pneumonia, meningitis and a few other preventable diseases from the next month, it has been reliably learnt. Read more |
| 29 September 2008 | Yellow fever in Guinea WHO - The Ministry of Health, Guinea has reported two cases of Yellow fever on 20 August and 12 September 2008. The cases have been laboratory confirmed by the Institut Pasteur, Dakar. The first case was reported in a 24 year old male living in the sub-prefecture of Bounouma, Prefecture of N'zérékoré: the man reported first seeing symptoms on 26 July and blood samples were taken on 4 and 5 August. The second case was reported in the third week of August in the Urbain Commune of N'zérékoré in another 24 year old male. Both cases had no history of yellow fever vaccinations. Read more |
| 25 September 2008 | At General Assembly event, a call for equity and action on development goals UNICEF website - On the opening day of the United Nations General Assembly session yesterday, UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman said there is a long way to go to reach the Millennium Development Goals by their 2015 target date. Read more |
| 17 September 2008 | INTERVIEW-Vaccines could prevent quarter of child deaths Reuters - A quarter of child deaths could be prevented by immunisations, according to the head of a multi-billion-dollar vaccine procurer, who warned on Wednesday that economic woes could soon damage public health programmes. Read more | Polity | Reuters Africa |
| 17 September 2008 | Drug Regulatory Agencies Collaborate On Counterfeits, New Medical Products IP Watch - Representatives from drug regulatory bodies are meeting this week in Bern, Switzerland, to discuss collaboration in an increasingly international world. Key topics of concern in the meetings include counterfeit drugs and issues in the production of new medical products. Read more |
| 13 September 2008 | Primary health care must go beyond WHO Lancet - We were pleased to hear Margaret Chan's strong commitment to primary health care 30 years after the Alma-Ata Declaration. In your Editorial on her statement (May 31, p 1811), you mention that the challenge in revitalising primary health care lies in tying together the ever-increasing number of global initiatives. Read more |
| 13 September 2008 | Child mortality 30 years after the Alma-Ata Declaration
Lancet - The 30th anniversary of Alma-Ata provides a tremendous opportunity to galvanise the increasing political commitment and global momentum behind meeting the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDG). MDG 4 calls for a two-thirds reduction in mortality of children aged less than 5 years between 1990 and 2015. Read more |
| 08 September 2008 | WHO declares Abidjan safe from Yellow Fever epidemic Afrique en ligne/Pana - The city of Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, has been declared safe from a Yellow Fever epidemic following a massive vaccination exercise carried out in the city, according to a statement from the World Health Organisation (WHO). Afrique en ligne | Pana |
| 06 September 2008 | African Health Ministers To Introduce New Vaccine To Prevent Deadly Meningitis Epidemics Medical News Today - Health Ministers from countries of the African Meningitis Belt committed themselves to introduce a highly promising candidate meningitis vaccine. The vaccine is designed to prevent periodic epidemics of the deadly disease in these countries. Read more | MediLexicon | Thai PR |
| 30 August 2008 | KARACHI: Health experts want scope of EPI widened The Dawn - Health experts have urged the federal health authorities to widen the scope of the Expanded Programme for Immunization (EPI) by including vaccinations for meningitis, pneumonia and diarrhoea, which, according to them, are the major causes of around 35 to 40 per cent of deaths among children under five in the country. Read more |
| 29 August 2008 | Recent Advances Make Cervical Cancer Control In Developing World Feasible For First Time Science Daily - Recent advances in cervical cancer prevention mean that controlling the disease in developing countries is becoming feasible for the first time, experts say. Read more |
| 25 August 2008 | Govt targets 40 per cent reduction in cancer cases by 2010 The Guardian - MINISTER in charge of Health, Dr. Hassan Lawal has unveiled plans by the Federal Government to reduce the rising cases of cancer by 40 per cent by 2010. Read more |
| 21 August 2008 | New York Times Examines Development, Advertising Of HPV Vaccines Medical News Today - In the last two years, cervical cancer has gone from an "obscure killer confined mostly to developing countries" to the "West's disease of the moment" through the "lightning-fast" transition of new human papillomavirus vaccines from development to "must-have injection[s]" in the U. Read more |
| 17 August 2008 | Pneumonia- The forgotten top child killer The New Vision - SHE lies in bed drenched in sweat. Her left hand is lifted up as if calling for heavenly intervention to rescue her tiny soul from agony. Her mouth is slightly open, gasping for air. From her nose, a tube runs to a small oxygen cylinder attached to a wall. Read more |
| 12 August 2008 | Rwanda: Country Revamps Immunisation Drive AllAfrica/The New Vision - Rapid improvements in immunization exercises across Rwanda over the past decade have led to a large number of infants being immunised. The endeavors target a healthy future generation. Read more | Also at |
| 10 August 2008 | Yellow Fever In Cote D'Ivoire Medical News Today - The Ministry of Health of Côte d'Ivoire has declared a yellow fever outbreak in the capital, Abidjan. The outbreak was laboratory confirmed at the beginning of May 2008. Read more |
| 10 August 2008 | Yellow fever outbreak in Cote D'Ivoire BizCommunity - The Ministry of Health of Côte d'Ivoire has declared a yellow fever outbreak in the capital, Abidjan. The outbreak was laboratory confirmed at the beginning of May 2008. Read more |
| 04 August 2008 | Zimbabwe: Immunisation Programme Gets 31 Vehicles AllAfrica/The Herald - GOVERNMENT has received 31 vehicles for use in the Expanded Immunisation Programme, which begins today under the Child Health Days. Read more |
| 03 August 2008 | First Shot Of Pentavalent Vaccine For The Children Of The Solomon Islands Medical News Today - For the first time in its history, the Solomon Islands began vaccinating its children today against Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) and four other common diseases through the use of a 5-1 vaccine purchased with funding from the GAVI Alliance. Read more |
| 31 July 2008 | Sanofi Pasteur MSD España se incorpora a la Alianza Empresarial para la Vacunación Infantil Diario Farmacéutico - Sanofi Pasteur MSD España ha entrado a formar parte de la Alianza Empresarial para la Vacunación Infantil, una iniciativa promovida por La Caixa y GAVI Alliance, cuyo objetivo es promover y canalizar las aportaciones de Acción Social de las empresas españolas que quieran sumarse a GAVI Alliance en su lucha contra la mortalidad infantil. Read more |
| 26 July 2008 | Stopping the silent killer The Monitor - The silent killer as cervical cancer as popularly called brought together hundreds of both locals and foreigners in a common cause to find ways of reducing its prevalence. Read more |
| 25 July 2008 | GAVI Alliance commits further support for pneumo and meningitis vaccines: GAVI Alliance Board Confirms Its Intent to Provide US$ 1.3 billion for the purchaseof pneumococcal vaccines Maxims News - A new blow against the major childhood killer pneumococcal disease was delivered yesterday when the GAVI Alliance Board confirmed its intent to provide US$1.3 billion for the purchase of pneumococcal vaccines for children in the developing world. Read more |
| 24 July 2008 | HPV vaccine to help fight cervical cancer The Monitor - In an effort to fast-track the spread of cervical cancer, the Ministry of Health recently introduced the HPV vaccine. Now available in the local market, the vaccine can be used by females within the age bracket of 9-26 years. Read more |
| 23 July 2008 | Mauritius: "Increasing the population's health increases its wealth" L'Express/AllAfrica - The medical specialist of the Centre for Disease Control was here for the 4th African Rotavirus Symposium. He elaborates on this little-known pathogen that claims half a million lives yearly and the advances in fighting preventable diseases. Read more |
| 20 July 2008 | GAVI earmarks $350m to immunize poor children in India India Post - For a country that manufactures and delivers the largest number of life-saving vaccines in the world, India, ironically, is home to over 40 percent of the world's unimmunized children. Read more |
| 20 July 2008 | GAVI earmarks $350m to immunize poor children in India India Post News Service - For a country that manufactures and delivers the largest number of life-saving vaccines in the world, India, ironically, is home to over 40 percent of the world's unimmunized children. Read more |
| 09 July 2008 | Areas without ‘fixed’ EPI centres to be reduced by 10% The News - The government has been advised to reduce by 10 percent areas characterised by the absence of fixed centres for immunisation under the Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI), ‘The News’ learnt here on Tuesday. Read more |
| 08 July 2008 | GiveVaccines.org Creates Quiz Web Site To Donate Life-Saving Vaccines To Impoverished Children Around The World Through The GAVI Alliance Medical News Today - Free Vaccine Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness about vaccine-preventable diseases and empowering individuals to be a part of the solution, has launched GiveVaccines.org. The site features a fast-paced vocabulary quiz focusing on word roots, English words and medical terminology. For every correct answer, GiveVaccines.org will donate .01 milliliter (ml) of life-saving vaccine to the GAVI Alliance vaccine program. Read more |
| 08 July 2008 | Donors will pay drug industry to produce vaccines for developing countries BizCommunity - A controversial new public health funding mechanism, intended to stimulate pharmaceutical companies to create vaccines for diseases that affect patients in developing countries, is close to being finalised. Read more |
| 05 July 2008 | The GAVI Alliance's new vaccine strategy The Lancet Vol 372 - On June 25, the GAVI Alliance launched its 5-year vaccine strategy, announcing plans to focus attention on seven key diseases: cervical cancer, cholera, Japanese encephalitis, meningitis A, rabies, rubella, and typhoid. This is a huge leap for the Alliance, with a change in both its long-term aims and its strategic approach. Read more |
| 02 July 2008 | Introduction du vaccin Pentavalent au Togo APA - Le Togo a entamé depuis mardi l’administration aux enfants du Pentavalent, un vaccin fait de cinq antigènes qui se retrouvent en une dose. Read more |
| 30 June 2008 | Priorité Santé - La vacination Radio France Internationale - A l'occasion du forum international sur la recherche en matière de vaccination, qui se tient à Paris du 29 juin au 2 juillet, sous l'égide de l'Organisation mondiale de la santé. Grâce au vaccin, la variole a disparu de la surface du globe, et des maladies comme la polio ont régressé de manière spectaculaire. Mais la bataille est loin d'être gagnée. Environ 3 millions d'enfants de moins de 5 ans meurent chaque année dans les pays en développement, de maladies pour lesquelles il existe un vaccin. Read more |
| 27 June 2008 | GAVI Alliance includes HPV Vaccine among its next priorities Afria Science News - An alliance of the world's top global health agencies, governments and private partners have approved a plan that will prioritize their support of new and underused vaccines to fight deadly disease in the developing world. Read more |
| 27 June 2008 | Global Vaccine Alliance Board Approves $3.5B Investment Strategy That Includes HPV Vaccine Medical News Today - The board of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) -- a public-private partnership that invests in childhood vaccinations in developing countries -- endorsed a $3.5 billion vaccine investment strategy for 2009 to 2020 that expands the focus to vaccines for adult women, including human papillomavirus, Reuters reports. According to Reuters, providing HPV vaccines to prevent cervical cancer and providing rubella vaccines to prevent miscarriages and birth defects were among the seven priority investments approved by the board. Read more |
| 27 June 2008 | GAVI Alliance includes HPV Vaccine among its next priorities Africa Science News Service - An alliance of the world’s top global health agencies, governments and private partners have approved a plan that will prioritize their support of new and underused vaccines to fight deadly disease in the developing world. Read more |
| 26 June 2008 | Millions of Vaccines To Be Bought for Children Worldwide Associated Press - GAVI, formerly known as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, is a public-private partnership including UNICEF, the World Health Organization, vaccine industry representatives, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It buys vaccines for children and is also helping to develop new ones for diseases like malaria and dengue fever. Read more |
| 26 June 2008 | Vaccine investor eyes adult women Reuters - An international partnership that funds vaccines for children in poor countries will decide on Wednesday whether to also start investing in vaccinations to protect adult women. Read more |
| 25 June 2008 | Millions to get vaccines The Independent/Associated Press - Millions of children and teenagers in poor countries may soon be vaccinated against seven common diseases, health officials said on Wednesday. Read more |
| 25 June 2008 | Gates-backed aid group to invest in HPV vaccines Reuters - An international partnership that funds vaccines for children in poor countries agreed on Wednesday to expand its scope and start investing in vaccinations aimed at adult women. Read more |
| 25 June 2008 | UPDATE 2-Gates-backed aid group to invest in HPV vaccines Reuters - An international partnership that funds vaccines for children in poor countries agreed on Wednesday to expand its scope and start investing in vaccinations aimed at adult women. Read more |
| 25 June 2008 | Kids in poorest countries to be vaccinated Associated Press - LONDON - Millions of children and teenagers in poor countries may soon be vaccinated against seven common diseases, health officials said Wednesday. MSNBC | China Post |
| 23 June 2008 | Rising Immunization rates helping poor countries, UN backed alliance reports eGov Monitor/United Nations - The report from the GAVI Alliance, which includes the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO), found that more than 2.9 million premature deaths have been averted by the partnership since it was formed in 2000. Read more |
| 22 June 2008 | A shot at life in Africa Merimbula News - It is a quick and efficient killer, claiming the lives of more children every year than malaria, AIDS and tuberculosis combined, yet hardly anyone talks about it. Read more |
| 21 June 2008 | Pneumonia, diarrhoea concerns in disease prevention: health alliance TerraNet - Pneumonia and diarrhoea, which kill one in three children around the world, are emerging as key concerns in disease prevention, a public-private partnership said Friday. Read more |
| 19 June 2008 | Idea of the Day: Use Inducement Prizes to Stimulate Innovation Center for American Progress - Inducement prizes are an old but currently underutilized tool for stimulating technological innovation. Inducement prizes encourage efforts by contestants to accomplish a particular goal, as opposed to recognition prizes such as the Nobel Prize which reward researchers for past achievements. Read more |
| 14 June 2008 | The Global Epidemiology of Childhood Pneumonia 20 Years On - redOrbit/WHO BLT - Any reflection on history, even as recent as the past 20 years, invites a humble re-evaluation of the myth of human progress. In public health, progress has been made; certainly the number of children who die each year has declined progressively. However, rereading the work of scientists who investigated the major cause of death in childhood, acute respiratory tract infection (ARI), in the 1980s evokes an uncanny resonance with present-day concerns. Read more |
| 12 June 2008 | Public Health Agencies Call On G8 Leaders To Allocate Increased Resources To Health Programs Worldwide - Medical News Today/Kaiser - The heads of several organizations involved in public health issues worldwide on Tuesday called on the Group of Eight industrialized nations to invest more resources in health and disease programs, the AP/USA Today reports. In an open letter in the International Herald Tribune, the public health leaders said that G8 leaders should bolster long-term efforts to address HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other diseases to build on progress made from previous commitments. The letter was signed by the heads of the World Health Organization; UNICEF; UNAIDS; the U.N. Population Fund; the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; the GAVI Alliance; the World Bank; and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (AP/USA Today, 6/9). Read more |
| 11 June 2008 | "Medicines should be subsidised too" - The Hindu Business Line - For people who cannot afford the product, government should negotiate and buy the drugs from companies at a low cost. If agriculture, fuel and kerosene can enjoy subsidies, surely medicines should too. Read more |
| 11 June 2008 | Health Experts Call on Global Leaders to Ensure Access to Life-Saving Pneumococcal Vaccines - PRNewswire - Nearly 1,000 of the world's leading experts in infectious diseases and vaccines are meeting during the 6th International Symposium on Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Diseases (ISPPD-6) this week to call for renewed and urgent action by governments to protect their citizens against pneumococcal disease, a leading killer of children and adults worldwide. Read more |
| 10 June 2008 | Lutte contre la fièvre jaune : Les campagnes menées au Togo, au Sénégal et au Mali évaluées - Le Soleil - Pour protéger les populations des pays les plus gravement menacés par la fièvre jaune, des campagnes de vaccination y sont menées. Le Togo, le Sénégal et le Mali ayant terminé leurs campagnes, il fallait évaluer avant de passer aux étapes suivantes. Read more |
| 09 June 2008 | All children deserve the best start in life - Queen - The Jordan Times - Her Majesty Queen Rania, a member of the GAVI board of directors, highlighted the organisation's accomplishments, which include preventing over 3 million deaths since its inception, at a fundraiser in London on Thursday evening. Read more |
| 09 June 2008 | International bodies call for G8 action on health - Reuters - Leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) rich nations meeting in Japan next month must tackle health scourges in developing countries to boost global prosperity and security, eight international organizations said on Monday. Read more |
| 06 June 2008 | An interview with Julian Lob-Levyt: Vaccines for the poor - Bulletin of the World Health Organization - Immunization is one of the world’s major public health successes, but many people are still not benefiting from it because they cannot afford the vaccines. Step forward the GAVI Alliance: a public–private partnership established in 2000 to raise money for vaccines to save the lives of millions of children who die every year from vaccine-preventable diseases. The GAVI Alliance was formerly known as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation Read more |
| 03 June 2008 | Afrique : des spécialistes se réunissent à l'UNICEF pour évaluer les campagnes menées contre la fièvre jaune - Newspress.fr - Les experts mondiaux de la santé qui forment le Groupe international de coordination chargé de la lutte contre la fièvre jaune se sont réunis au siège de l'UNICEF pour examiner les leçons tirées des campagnes de vaccination qui ont récemment pris fin au Togo, au Mali et au Sénégal, et grâce auxquelles des millions de personnes ont pu être protégées contre cette maladie mortelle. Read more |
| 01 June 2008 | Straight talk with... Alan Gillespie Nature - Finding the financial means to achieve global health targets poses a huge challenge. Government donations can take years or even decades after formal approval to actually arrive. To overcome this hurdle and quickly raise huge sums for child vaccination programs, the International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm, pronounced 'if im') raises funds from private investors by offering them bonds backed by government pledges. Full text PDF Abstract |
| 29 May 2008 | Desire for profit hampers production of vaccines Khaleej Times - The past decades have seen spectacular successes in the area of vaccines and immunisation, but profit-motivated manufacturers are hampering production of vaccines against several killer diseases including Aids and malaria, an international conference here heard on Tuesday. Read more |
| 28 May 2008 | Experts gather at UNICEF to review major yellow fever campaigns in Africa - UNICEF - Global health experts who make up the International Coordinating Group set up to fight yellow fever are gathering at UNICEF Headquarters to discuss lessons learned from recently-completed vaccination campaigns in Togo, Mali and Senegal that immunized millions against the deadly disease. Read more |
| 26 May 2008 | Stronger Health Systems Are Key To Battling Disease In Poorest Countries - Medical News Today - In response to unprecedented demand from developing countries, the GAVI Alliance will increase its funding for health system strengthening to US$800 million. Read more |
| 24 May 2008 | Stronger health systems key to battling disease in poorest countries - Africa Science News - Weak health systems in developing countries is one of the main obstacles to scaling up immunization and other life-saving interventions, and remain a key barrier to achieving the Millennium Development Goals, especially goals 4 and 5, which aim to reduce child and maternal mortality. Read more |
| 21 May 2008 | Guyana health minister assumes presidency of World Health Assembly - Caribbean Net News - Guyana’s health minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy has been named president of the 61st World Health Assembly, which opened on Monday at the United Nations Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Read more |
| 12 May 2008 | Ensuring Child Survial in Malawi With Vaccines - DW World - Vaccination campaigns can reduce infant mortality rates considerably, as successful immunization efforts in Malawi show. Read more |
| 29 April 2008 | AP Interview: Wife of Nelson Mandela urges push for greater child immunization - Associated Press - Longtime child rights campaigner Graca Machel said Thursday a push to immunize children in the developing world against killer diseases has saved millions of lives. But she urged the world to do more. Read more |
| 28 April 2008 | Symposium Announces Great Strides In Childhood Immunization - Medical News Today - Top vaccine experts and child advocates meeting in Barcelona hailed dramatic new evidence of the role of immunisation in reducing deaths among children in the world's poorest nations. Read more |
| 25 April 2008 | Disease Busters - NEWSWEEK - Developing countries are making progress in getting vaccines to--and for--their people, says African activist Graca Machel. Read more |
| 24 April 2008 | Wife of Nelson Mandela urges push for greater child immunization - The Canadian Press/Associated Press - Longtime child rights campaigner Graca Machel said Thursday a push to immunize children in the developing world against killer diseases has saved millions of lives. But she urged the world to do more. Read more |
| 24 April 2008 | Symposium announces great strides in childhood immunization - EurekAlert - Top vaccine experts and child advocates meeting in Barcelona today hailed dramatic new evidence of the role of immunisation in reducing deaths among children in the world"s poorest nations. Read more |
| 24 April 2008 | Vaccine Bonds Provide Model For Other Aid Projects - World Bank - "Strong investor demand for a bond used to fund vaccines for the poor shows a novel way to tap money markets to back aid projects in the developing world. Alan Gillespie, Chairman of the International Finance Facility for Immunization (IFFIm), told Reuters there was "almost limitless" demand for highly-rated bonds like those his institution sells to help develop and distribute vaccines. Read more |
| 23 April 2008 | Vaccine bonds provide model for other aid projects - Strong investor demand for a bond used to fund vaccines for the poor shows a novel way to tap money markets to back aid projects in the developing world. Read more |
| 23 April 2008 | Vaccine bonds provide model for other aid projects - Reuters - Strong investor demand for a bond used to fund vaccines for the poor shows a novel way to tap money markets to back aid projects in the developing world. Alan Gillespie, chairman of the International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm), told Reuters there was "almost limitless" demand for highly-rated bonds like those his institution sells to help develop and distribute vaccines. Read more |
| 23 April 2008 | "En moments difícils és quan fa més falta l'obra social" - AVUI - "En un món globalitzat, Catalunya ha de fer front a un nombre més alt de necessitats socials" GIR · "Treballem per facilitar la integració laboral d'aquelles persones amb més dificultats i per afavorir la inclusió social de les persones Read more |
| 23 April 2008 | MECANISMES INNOVANTS DE FINANCEMENT DU DEVELOPEMENT : La 4e session du Groupe pilote en route pour Doha - Le Soleil - Devant l’essoufflement de l’APD qui ne cesse de diminuer et les limites des financements classiques aux conditionnalités drastiques, des mécanismes innovants sont nécessaires pour que l’Afrique, en particulier, et les pays en développement, de manière générale, ne soient marginalisés par la globalisation. Read more |
| 23 April 2008 | Graça Machel, la primera africana investida doctora 'honoris causa' per la UB - ADN.es - Noticias ADN - La presidenta del Fons de l'Aliança Global de Vacunes i Immunització rep la distinció per la seva aportació al món de la ciència i pels valors de justícia, llibertat i democràcia que Read more |
| 23 April 2008 | La defensora dels drets de les dones Graça Machel, investida doctor 'honoris causa' a la UB - laMalla.net - Graça Machel, reconeguda defensora dels drets de les dones i presidenta de l'Aliança Global per a les Vacunes i la Immunització (GAVI), ha estat avui investida doctor 'honoris causa' a la Universitat de Barcelona (UB). Read more |
| 23 April 2008 | La infanta Cristina preside la investidura doctor honoris causa de la defensora de los derechos de mujeres Graça Machel - SIGLO XXI - La infanta Cristina presidió hoy la investidura como doctor honoris causa de la defensora de los derechos de las mujeres, presidenta del Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (Gavi) Found Board y premio Príncipe de Asturias de Cooperación Internacional en 1998, Graça Machel, según informó hoy la Universitat de Barcelona (UB). Read more |
| 22 April 2008 | Progress in Vaccination against Haemophilus influenzae type b in the Americas - PLOS - Worldwide, Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) causes at least 3 million cases of severe disease each year. Approximately 400,000 children die annually due to pneumonia or meningitis caused by Hib [1]. Severe neurological sequelae occur in 15% to 30% of those who survive Hib meningitis [2]. Other, less frequent, manifestations of Hib are epiglottitis, septic arthritis, osteomyelitis, and septicemia [1-3]. Read more |
| 22 April 2008 | What Are the Implications for Childhood Pneumonia of Successfully Introducing Hib and Pneumococcal Vaccines in Developing Countries? - PLOS - Pneumonia is the single commonest cause of death in children under five years old, accounting for 2 million out of 10 million childhood deaths worldwide [1]. Severe pneumonia is an important diagnostic syndrome within the World Health Organization (WHO)/UNICEF system for triage and clinical management in developing countries, the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI). The objective of IMCI is early recognition of disease and timely access to effective therapy; for severe pneumonia, this means referral to hospital and treatment with lifesaving antibiotics directed against the principal etiological agents, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) [2]. Read more |
| 18 April 2008 | Kenya, Uganda success stories in Hb vaccine, GAVI says - Africa Science News Service - Recent studies in Uganda and Kenya show that the growing use of the Hib vaccine is responsible for eliminating deadly and extraordinarily painful Hib meningitis, the Executive Secretary of the Global Alliance for Vaccine Initiative, GAVI. Read more |
| 17 April 2008 | GAVI works to reduce the number of preventable child deaths in Tanzania - UNICEF - Since 2000, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) has been helping Tanzania reach more children with vaccines. As a result, immunization coverage has climbed from approximately 79 per cent in 2000 to around 90 per cent today. Read more |
| 17 April 2008 | GAVI works to reduce the number of preventable child deaths in Tanzania - ReliefWeb - Like all hospitals and health facilities in Tanzania, Morogoro Regional Hospital offers free routine immunization to all children under the age of five. Read more |
| 15 April 2008 | Yellow Fever Vaccination Campaign In Mali - Medical News Today - A week-long campaign to vaccinate 5.7 million people across the southern half of Mali begins Saturday in the country and, for the first time ever, a mass vaccination campaign will be undertaken thanks to "south-south" vaccine supply: South America's only manufacturer of Yellow Fever vaccine, Bio Manguinhos of Brazil, will be supplying half of the vaccine necessary. Read more |
| 13 April 2008 | Wie eine globale Impfallianz Millionen Leben rettet - DRADIO (National Public Radio, Germany) - In der Gavi-Allianz, der Globalen Allianz für Impfstoffe und Immunisierung haben sich WHO, UNICEF, Politik und die Pharmaindustrie zusammengetan. Seit 2000 läuft das Gemeinschaftsvorhaben, Zeit für eine Zwischenbilanz. Das Ziel der Initiative: Die Kindersterblichkeit in den Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländern soll mit Impfkampagnen und Gesundheitsprogrammen drastisch reduziert werden. Rund drei Millionen Kleinkindern hat die Initiative seit ihrer Gründung im Jahr 2000 das Leben gerettet. Read more / Listen |
| 10 April 2008 | GAVI will begin immunising children with Hib vaccine in Papua New Guinea later this month, with help from the Australian government. - ABC Radio National Breakfast Programme, Australia - Each year Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) kills some 400,000 children under five years of age across the world. It is a major killer in Papua New Guinea. This is a vaccine that has been available in countries such as Australia for more than ten years. GAVI is here to make sure that poorest countries in the world can gain access to the same life saving vaccines. Listen |
| 10 April 2008 | Burning Questions: Fighting a silent killer -- pneumonia - NJ.com - Pneumonia will take the lives of 2 million children this year in developing countries. Orin Levine, a professor at Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health, has been touring the world to raise $1.5 billion to entice drugmakers to produce more pneumonia vaccine. Read more |
| 10 April 2008 | Breakfast - Global vaccines - Every year, 10 million children around the world die before reaching their fifth birthday. Of those children, 2.5 million die from diseases that could be prevented with currently available vaccines. It was that shocking statistic that led to the creation of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation back in the year 2000. Initially funded by Bill and Melinda Gates, the Alliance has been responsible for providing millions of vaccinations for children in the world's poorest countries. Today, the foundation has announced it will begin providing vaccinations in Papua New Guinea, with help from the Australian government. Read more |
| 10 April 2008 | Top Indian paediatric body to lobby for pneumonia vaccine - newKerala - With pneumonia killing nearly 400,000 children in the country annually, the Indian Academy of Paediatrics (IAP) will lobby with the health ministry to introduce a new vaccine to curb the infectious disease. Read more |
| 10 April 2008 | Removing barriers to the distribution of life-saving vaccines - News-Medical.net - Barriers to the distribution of life saving vaccines in low income countries can and should be overcome, say experts in this week's issue of the BMJ. Read more |
| 09 April 2008 | IFFIm raises money for immunisation - DfID/ReliefWeb - Last month, the International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm) successfully issued a second bond in the international capital markets. The bond issue raised US$223 million (approximately £111.5 million) for the GAVI Alliance's programmes on immunisation and strengthening health systems. This will help to immunise millions of vulnerable people against diseases like polio and measles. Read more |
| 09 April 2008 | PNG to begin vaccination campaign - ABC - Papua New Guinea will begin giving children this month to protect them against the disease Haemophilus Influenza type b, or Hib disease. Read more |
| 08 April 2008 | Bill Gates cherche à vacciner tous les enfants de Tanzanie - Maama Massi est médecin au Regional Hospital de Morogoro, à 200 km à l'est de Dar Es Saalam, dans la région de Dodoma. Avec son staff de sept médecins, un chirurgien, une pédiatre, une gynécologue, un officier de santé pulique et 13 infirmières, il règne sur 370 lits dans cet établissement de la deuxième plus grande des 26 provinces tanzaniennes, 9 millions d'âmes éparpillées dans les montagnes, les zones de marécages et les berges des rivières torrentielles. "La population souffre énormément du poids des maladies infectieuses. Les pneumonies à Hémophilus ou dues au pneumocoque font des ravages", expose-t-il. Read more |
| 07 April 2008 | Does the Hib vaccine in Kenya deserve public money? - id21 - Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccine was licensed for use in infants in 1991. However, developing countries delayed its introduction due to cost and because Hib disease was perceived to be relatively rare. In 2001, Kenya was one of nine countries to receive financial backing to introduce the vaccine. How cost-effective has it been? Read more |
| 05 April 2008 | More support for child immunisation - The News - The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) will give Pakistan an amount of US $25 million for strengthening its immunisation services over a period of three years and US $23 million for improving its health system over a period of two years. Read more |
| 04 April 2008 | Nigeria: Towards Enhanced Vaccination - AllAfrica/This Day - This month, Uganda announced that it has nearly eliminated deadly Hib meningitis in young children through the use of a single vaccine. This comes just five years after that vaccine was first introduced into the country's immunization programme. Read more |
| 04 April 2008 | Removing barriers to the distribution of vaccines - Science Centric/BMJ - Barriers to the distribution of life saving vaccines in low income countries can and should be overcome, say experts in this week's issue of the BMJ. They suggest that building local clinical research and vaccine production capacity in developing countries will increase the global availability of affordable vaccines. Read more |
| 03 April 2008 | Removing barriers to the distribution of life-saving vaccines - EurekAlert/BMJ - Barriers to the distribution of life saving vaccines in low income countries can and should be overcome, say experts in this week’s issue of the BMJ Read more |
| 03 April 2008 | Uganda vaccine success: A wake up call to Nigeria - The Guardian (Nigeria) - This month, Uganda announced that it has nearly eliminated deadly Hib meningitis in young children through the use of a single vaccine. This comes just five years after that vaccine was first introduced into the country's immunisation programme. As a result, Hib vaccine prevented an estimated 28,000 cases of pneumonia and meningitis and 5000 deaths in Uganda each year. Read more |
| 03 April 2008 | Vaccines deal to help poor states - Financial Times - Six donors are close to approving a groundbreaking $1.5bn (€960m, £756m) mechanism designed to boost the development and affordable supply of new vaccines to the developing world. Read more |
| 02 April 2008 | Action for child survival: elimination of Haemophilus influenzae type b meningitis in Uganda - Bulletin of the World Health Organization - Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) is a leading cause of bacterial meningitis and pneumonia in children worldwide, resulting in at least 3 million severe illnesses and 386 000 deaths each year. Immunization with Hib conjugate vaccine reduces the risk of invasive Hib disease in young children by more than 90%, and WHO recommends that Hib conjugate vaccines be included in all routine infant immunization programmes. Uganda introduced Hib vaccine in 2002, and was to start vaccine cofinancing from its own resources by 2007. Read more |
| 31 March 2008 | Sabin Vaccine Institute Receives $9.2M Gates Foundation Grant to Pursue Sustainable Immunization Financing - eMediaWire - The Sabin Vaccine Institute (SVI) announced today a $9.2 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a global advocacy effort to help countries finance their national immunization systems. Over the next six years the Sabin Advocacy Project for Sustainable Immunization Financing will work closely with 15 developing countries and with the GAVI Alliance....to help the countries increase the fiscal space for immunization by attracting new sources of funding. Read more |
| 28 March 2008 | Vaccination of 6m Malians against Yellow Fever starts Friday - Pana Press - A week-long campaign to vaccinate 5.7 million people across the southern half of Mali was due to start Friday (28 March), the WHO's Regional Office for Africa said in a statement made available to PANA here. Read more |
| 24 March 2008 | Saving lives while earning interest - The Guardian (Nigeria) - A NEW face of Africa is emerging. Reports of strife, disease and hunger, the traditional grist of news coverage about this vast continent, now have to share space with happier stories of accelerated growth, development, and new and unusual opportunities for investing in the region. As African women and officials of development finance institutions, we are witnessing the creation of exciting and imaginative means of raising funds for African development. Read more |
| 23 March 2008 | Vaccine bond in strong demand - Financial Times - Japanese retail investors have fully taken up a pioneering $223m bond to fund vaccination programmes in the developing world, paving the way for further such offers in other markets in the future. Read more |
| 15 March 2008 | Neglected diseases: Towards policies without borders - OECD Observer - Whole communities in the developing world are being crippled by neglected infectious diseases. Changing the way intellectual property rights are managed is vital for attracting the pharmaceutical investment needed to tackle them. Read more |
| 13 March 2008 | Uganda: Eliminating meningitis saves 5,000 children a year, say officials - IRIN - Up to 5,000 children under the age of five will be saved in Uganda every year after a vaccine halted mortality rates from the deadly strain of meningitis that has been infecting up to 30,000 people in the east African country, officials said on 13 March. Read more | All Africa |
| 11 March 2008 | Inaugural issuance of Vaccine Bonds - Silo Breaker - Daiwa Securities Group has announced an inaugural issuance of Vaccine Bonds under the International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm), the GAVI Alliance and the World Bank's Global Debt Issuance Programme. Read more |
| 10 March 2008 | Vaccine use wipes out Hib meningitis in Uganda - Reuters - Vaccinations in Uganda have eliminated Hib meningitis, a dangerous inflammation of the lining of the brain and spinal cord, as a public health concern in the African country, the GAVI Alliance said on Monday. Read more |
| 10 March 2008 | Bacterial meningitis eliminated from Uganda - The Guardian - Hib bacterial meningitis, which used to kill 5,000 children under five every year in Uganda, has been virtually eliminated from the country five years after introduction of a vaccine, it was reported today. Read more |
| 10 March 2008 | 5-Year-Old Vaccine Program Vanquishes a Dangerous Type of Childhood Meningitis - New York Times - A dangerous type of childhood meningitis has been virtually eliminated in Uganda in just five years after a vaccine was introduced, according to a study released this week. That should save the lives of 5,000 children a year, the authors estimated. Read more |
| 03 March 2008 | Worldwide progress for Hib vaccine - American Medical Association - A report released Feb. 14 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that progress is being made in the use of Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine in low-income countries. From 2004 to 2007, the proportion of the poorest countries using or approved to use this preventive increased from 18% to 65%. Read more |
| 28 February 2008 | Rand bonds overtake Aussie as uridashi favourite - Reuters - Issuance of South African rand uridashi bonds skyrocketed in February as their steep coupons lured mom and pop investors, who have also been attracted by the country's rising recognition as the host of the 2010 World Cup. Read more |
| 27 February 2008 | 'Vaccine bond' scheme turns to Japan for next offer - AFP - A pioneering scheme to tap capital markets for funds for life-saving vaccines has picked Japan for its next offer of bonds that have already been bought by rock stars and even Pope Benedict XVI. Read more |
| 27 February 2008 | Novartis vaccines institute sets sights on developing world diseases - in-PharmaTechnologist - Novartis has lent impetus to the growing trend towards philanthropic R&D in the pharmaceutical industry by opening a new research institute in Siena, Italy "with a non-profit mission to exclusively focus on the development of vaccines for diseases of the developing world". Read more |
| 18 February 2008 | Spain's Leading Corporate Foundation Gives 4 Million Dollars For Child Immunisation - Medical News Today - La Caixa Foundation (Fundacion Caja de Ahorros y Pensiones de Barcelona) has announced a €4 million donation to the GAVI Fund's Immunise Every Child Campaign. The money will be used to help vaccinate children in the world's poorest countries against life-threatening diseases. Read more |
| 15 February 2008 | Progress introducing Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine in low-income countries, 2004-2008 - Weekly Epidemiological Record - Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) disease is estimated to cause 3 million cases of meningitis and sever pneumonia, and approximately 386,000 deaths per year in children aged under 5 years. Safe and effective Hib conjugate vaccines have been widely used in industrialized countries for nearly 20 years. Read more |
| 11 February 2008 | The rand glitters for Japan retail investors - Japanese retail investors seeking higher returns to offset the meagre pickings at home are looking increasingly to more exotic currencies to diversify their bond portfolios. Read more |
| 11 February 2008 | Ethical corporate bonds – principal or principles? - Trustnet - Just how do you invest ethically in fixed interest? With new ethical bond funds available, it is easier than ever to make choices based on sound principles that will also earn principal returns Read more |
| 05 February 2008 | SPAIN'S LA CAIXA FOUNDATION GIVES €4 MILLION TO GAVI ALLIANCE FOR CHILD IMMUNISATION - MaximsNews Network - La Caixa Foundation (Fundacion Caja de Ahorros y Pensiones de Barcelona) has announced a €4 million donation to the GAVI Fund’s Immunise Every Child Campaign. The money will be used to help vaccinate children in the world’s poorest countries against life-threatening diseases. Read more |
| 04 February 2008 | Vaccines get a boost: Global market increases profitability of making vaccine - Although long recognized as a public health boon, vaccines' high development costs and low profit margins were not attractive to manufacturers. That has changed. Vaccines are hot. Read more |
| 30 January 2008 | Comienza programa de inmunización contra la diarrea, meningitis y neumonías - Bolivia dará un salto en la prevención de muertes de niños pobres y vulnerables desde este año y hasta el 2010, anunció en Caracas la responsable responsable del Programa Ampliado de Inmunización (PAI) Magali Fuentes. Read more |
| 30 January 2008 | I vaccini, la speranza per la salute globale - Rappresentano l’intervento medico che più di tutti ha cambiato la vita dell’uomo sul pianeta e oggi, grazie ai progressi della ricerca, promettono applicazioni anche terapeutiche e per malattie non infettive. Ma la sfida più grande per i vaccini del futuro è quella di debellare le malattie più comuni, che nei paesi poveri fanno centinaia di migliaia di morti. Read more |
| 30 January 2008 | Progress in Global Measles Control and Mortality Reduction, 2000-2006 - The World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) comprehensive strategy for measles mortality reduction is focused on 47 priority countries.* Read more |
| 30 January 2008 | Santé / Vaccinations: premier bilan positif pour l’IFFIM - Avec près d’un milliard de dollars mobilisés, le Fonds international pour les Vaccinations, l’IFFIM souffle sa première bougie avec le sourire : 43 pays pauvres ont en effet bénéficié de stocks de vaccins vitaux et d’un renforcement de leurs services de santé, rapporte le site internet www.destinationsante.com Read more |
| 25 January 2008 | Cash for answers - In 1737, John Harrison, a self-taught clockmaker from Yorkshire, stunned London’s scientific establishment by presenting an idiosyncratic solution to the most important and notorious technological problem of the 18th century. He was hoping to win a then-fabulous prize of £20,000 (about £5m today) for anyone who could devise a way for a ship’s navigator to determine its longitude and therefore its position at sea. Read more |
| 23 January 2008 | UNICEF report lauds GAVI Alliance's work - 2.9 million future deaths prevented by GAVI immunisation programmes since 2000, new data show The Global Alliance for Vaccine Initiative, GAVI said today that targeted immunisation backed by innovative financing to pay for the introduction of new vaccines is key to reducing child mortality in the world’s poorest countries. Read more |
| 11 January 2008 | Pakistan to Introduce Free Hib Vaccine for Children - Pakistan is set to achieve a major landmark in preventive health care when Hib (Haemophilis Influenzae B) is introduced for infants this year. The vaccine would be provided as part of the new Pentavalent vaccine which includes vaccine against diphtheria, Pertussis (whooping cough), tetanus, hepatitis B Hib. Read more |
| 11 January 2008 | Un nouveau vaccin contre les maladies infantiles lancé au Liberia - APA-Monrovia, (Liberia) Un nouveau vaccin contre les maladies infantiles a été, pour la première fois, lancé vendredi au Liberia, a appris APA à Monrovia. Selon les autorités du ministère de la santé du Liberia, le vaccin dénommé « vaccin pentavalent » est une combinaison de cinq vaccins en un seul vaccin. Read more |
| 08 January 2008 | Investing in health can create stronger economies - At the beginning of this decade a revolution was set in motion. The world began to see that health was essential to achieving development, rather than just something countries could award themselves once they had dragged themselves out of poverty. Leaders began devoting attention and resources to fighting the diseases that take the greatest toll on the poor: AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and vaccine-preventable diseases. Less than ten years later, the investments are showing results. Read more |
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