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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...

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...

On the eve of Vaccination Week in the Americas, PAHO urged countries to close the immunization gap that resulted in hundreds of thousands of children missing…

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 ...

PAHO calls for closing vaccination gap generated by COVID-19 pandemic disruption 23 Apr 2021 In 2020, vaccination rates against diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis dropped by 18.2% while immunization against measles, mumps, and rubella declined by 13.9%, compared to 2019. Washington, D.C., April 23, 2021 (PAHO) – On the eve of Vaccination Week in the Americas, PAHO urged countries to close the immunization gap that resulted in hundreds of thousands of children missing vaccinations last...

PAHO calls for closing vaccination gap generated by COVID-19 pandemic disruption Format In 2020, vaccination rates against diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis dropped by 18.2% while immunization against measles, mumps, and rubella declined by 13.9%, compared to 2019. Washington, D.C., April 23, 2021 (PAHO) – On the eve of Vaccination Week in the Americas, PAHO urged countries to close the immunization gap that resulted in hundreds of thousands of children missing vaccinations last year. The de...

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