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Panama City, Nov 30 (Prensa Latina) Panama registered 6,435 new cases of Covid-19 in the last epidemiological week and accumulates 1,200,161 cases since the disease was detected in March 2020. According to the latest report of the Ministry of Health (Minsa), from November 20 to 26, seven deaths were reported for a total of 8,526 deaths in a little more than two years of this disease.

Ghana has covered at least 400,000 children in phase one of the pilot Malaria Vaccine Implementation Program (MVIP), said an official on Thursday.l Kwame Amponsa-Achiano, manager for the Expanded Program on Immunization at the Ghana Health Service (GHS), disclosed this at a press briefing on the MVIP, which began to…

Ghana covers 400,000 children in pilot malaria vaccination-

Perennial malaria chemoprevention (PMC) is newly formulated strategy endorsed in June 2022 by the World Health Organization and builds off the previously recommended but poorly implemented strategy of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in infants – IPTi. IPTi – the provision of single dose Sulphadoxine Pyrimethamine (SP) delivered through the Expanded Program of Immunization (EPI) at times of childhood immunisation at approximately 3, 4 and 9 months of age was shown to provide infa...

Government has challenged chiefs to champion cleanup campaigns as a way of controlling the Cholera outbreak in the country. Minister of Local governme...

Immunization is an effective preventive health intervention. In Cameroon, the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) aims to vaccinate children under 5 years of age for free, but vaccination coverage has consistently remained below the national target. Vaccines are distributed based on the target population size, factoring in wastage norms. However, the vaccine wastage rate (VWR) may differ among various settings. Our study aimed to assess vaccine wastage for different site settings, seasonality...

HCMC faces risk of interruption in vaccination program

Vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs) persist globally with a disproportionately high burden in Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). Although this might be partly due to the failure to sustain vaccination coverage above 90% in some WHO regions, a more nuanced understanding of VPD transmission beyond vaccination coverage may unveil other important factors in VPD transmission and control. This study identified VPDs hotspots and explored their relationships with ecology, urbanicity and land-use v...

In the wake of wild-polio outbreak in Malawi and Mozambique, neighbouring countries have stepped up surveillance to detect cases while preparing for

KARACHI: Diphtheria, a vaccine-preventable disease which has vanished from most parts of the world, has so far killed at least 10 children in Sindh, mostly in last two months, health officials...