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2021-05-15 13:55:45 GMT2021-05-15 21:55:45(Beijing Time) Xinhua English by Ndalimpinga Iita WINDHOEK, May 15 (Xinhua) -- On Friday, Maggy Brown, a health community worker assigned to a far-flung village in the northern part of Namibia, hung up on a call on the mobile phone. She provided information to a community member about COVID-19 vaccines and other safety and hygiene protocols. Brown is one of the health care workers in Namibia educating locals about the COVID-19 vaccines. "Some peo...

The 34,000 AstraZeneca vaccines against covid-19 that El Salvador donated to Honduras, after a request made by seven Honduran mayors to the president of that country, Nayib Bukele, arrived on Thursday.

In 1957, a virus recovered from infants with lower respiratory tract illness (LRTI) was named respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) for its ability to form multinucleated cells (syncytia) in cell culture ( 1). Early epidemiologic studies in high-income countries described the spectrum of RSV disease, including pneumonia, bronchiolitis (a characteristic wheezing LRTI), otitis media (middle ear infection), and apnea (pauses in breathing) in very young infants. Later studies demonstrated that RSV infe...

Sadique); independent researcher ( S. Ali) "[B]oth during the pandemic and in normal times, vaccination campaigns in low-resource settings face multiple challenges, especially when factors like (geo)politics are in play." Vaccination encounters multiple context-specific challenges that substantially affect its uptake. Rumours and conspiracy theories have long been affecting vaccination programmes in Pakistan, where only 51% of children had all age-appropriate vaccinations as of 2019. In this c...

Child mortality May 1, 2021 In Pakistan, the neonatal mortality rate is at least 45 percent per 1,000 births. On the other hand, the under-five mortality rate is 67 percent per 1,000 children. Pakistan is also one of the two countries that are still trapped in the polio epidemic. Also, 14 percent of children, in our country, die from pneumonia and 25 percent die from measles, tetanus, and other vaccine-preventable diseases. A lot of these deaths could have been avoided, had the relevant autho...

The Diplomat has removed paywall restrictions on our coverage of the COVID–19 crisis. Outside a COVID-19 vaccination center at the Jinnah Post-Medical Center (JPMC), Karachi’s biggest government run hospital, on a mid-March morning. Credit: Niha Dagia Advertisement As Zubi (name changed by request) walked over to the entrance of a vaccination center at Karachi’s biggest government-run hospital, JPMC, she was greeted by a long queue forming on the road outside. She glanced at her phone to ...

Updated: April 25, 2021 09:10 IST Two doctors on the fight to eradicate a deadly virus, the controversy around the vaccination platform and the crisis the programme faces Share Article AAA Two doctors on the fight to eradicate a deadly virus, the controversy around the vaccination platform and the crisis the programme faces In a world in the midst of confronting a new infection and fighting a global pandemic comes a book that is a sober reminder of another war by medicine; a war against a much ...

Eastern African nation launches 3-day catch-up immunization campaign amid reports of polio in neighboring DRC - Anadolu Agency

1 1Madda Walabu University Goba Referral Hospital, School of Health Sciences, Department of Public Health, Bale, Ethiopia; 2Madda Walabu University Goba Referral Hospital, School of Medicine, Department of Physiology, Bale, Ethiopia; 3Madda Walabu University Goba Referral Hospital, School of Medicine, Department of Anatomy, Bale, Ethiopia Background: Incomplete vaccination can put children at greater risk of acquiring vaccine-preventable diseases. In Ethiopia, vaccination coverage against vac...

By: Times News Service Muscat: The Ministry of Health (MOH), represented by the Directorate General of Primary Health Care (DGPHC) organized recently a virtual workshop on primary healthcare (PHC) practices amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The workshop was held in conjunction with World Health Day, which came under the theme "Building a fairer, healthier world" so that anyone can access the health services. The workshop aimed to develop the appropriate mechanisms for follow-up and assessment in ord...