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"Health care providers and community health workers...need to transform beyond providing health services (competence and knowledge) to become trust agents (morality and compassion for the people they serve) fostering community ownership and engagement while serving as pillars to strengthen service delivery."

Pelvic organ prolapse remains a neglected public health problem in developing countries. The burden of pelvic organ prolapse varies by region and ranges from 9 to 20%. It poses an impact on women’s quality of life and affects their role at the community and family level. Although it has negative consequences and extensive burden, the true feature of pelvic organ prolapse is not well known among ever-married women attending health facilities for various reasons in the study area. Therefore,...

May 23, 2022 - The Ministry of Health (Minsa) announced Monday, May 23, that the hexavalent pediatric vaccine was included in the Expanded Program on Immunization (PAI), whi

Panama City, May 24 (Prensa Latina) The Panamanian Ministry of Health (MINSA) highlighted that the administration of the hexavalent pediatric vaccine currently places the country at the forefront of such programs in Latin America.

This article aims to comment on the current situation of Typhoid in Pakistan amidst COVID-19 & provide possible recommendations on how to prevent further spread

Researchers at the Precision Vaccines Program at Boston Children’s Hospital recently partnered with the Expanded Program on Immunization Consortium, an international team studying early life immunization, to collect and comprehensively profile blood samples from newborns immunized with the century-old Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine, using a powerful “big data” approach.

The century-old Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine against tuberculosis is one of the world's oldest and most widely used vaccines, used to immunize 100 million newborns every year. Given in countries with endemic TB, it has surprisingly been found to protect newborns and young infants against multiple bacterial and viral infections unrelated to TB. There's even some evidence that it can reduce severity of COVID-19.

The global distribution of vaccines from a manufacturer to a local community is made possible through international entities, community health workers, and cold chain resources.

How PATH helped the Bangladesh Ministry of Health conduct an historic COVID-19 vaccination campaign in hard-to-reach Kurigram District.

2.7 million children in the Americas did not receive the vaccines needed to keep them healthy in 2020, while around 230 million people have still not received a single dose of COVID-19 vaccine in the region