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(UPDATE) CRIMINAL complaints were filed by the Office of the Ombudsman against former Health secretary and now Iloilo 1st District Rep. Janette Garin and three others for alleged illegal use of public funds.

The Office of the Ombudsman has filed charges of graft and illegal use of public funds against former health secretary now Iloilo Representative Janette Garin and four others in relation to the procurement of the controversial Dengvaxia vaccines.

THE Office of the Ombudsman filed a case before the Sandiganbayan against former Health secretary and now Iloilo 1st District Rep. Janette Garin and three others for alleged illegal use of public funds.

In Pakistan’s most polio-troubled region, a new strategy sees encouraging successes.

  The National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA) has concluded plans to introduce the HPV vaccine into the national Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI). The introduction will be done in two phases. Phase 1 consists of 15 states plus FCT. These states are; Abia, Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Benue, Enugu, Jigawa, Kano, Kebbi, Lagos,…

Kids as young as nine months of age can now be biometrically identified ahead of vaccination – creating reliable, verifiable records, and expanding the reach of immunisation.

Their aims are aligned and their tools are complementary, says Huma Khawar, a health journalist who also works as a CSO coordinator with Pakistan's Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI).

The Ministry of Health in Monrovia announces the arrival of an additional 108, 000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccines today, Friday, September 3, 2021,...

As with international aid shipments, basic inoculations are being distributed on the basis of political loyalty.

Thanks to a partnership between Gavi, Orange Côte d'Ivoire and the Ivorian Ministry of Health, Public Hygiene and Universal Health Coverage, M-Vaccin is paving the way for a significant improvement in routine immunisation coverage in Côte d'Ivoire.