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The Food and Drugs Authority’s Safety Monitoring System from March 2021 to November 2022, has recorded 9,000 side effects - known as Adverse Events Following Immunization (AEFI) from the over 21 million doses administered to persons. This means for 100, 000 COVID-19 doses administered about 43 persons complained of AEFI.…

Eswatini has joined countries like Botswana, Mozambique, and Malawi in intensifying efforts to protect more people from polio. Following the finalisation

Eswatini has joined countries like Botswana, Mozambique, and Malawi in intensifying efforts to protect more people from polio. Following the finalisation of the National Polio Preparedness and Response Plan, the country went on to conduct a Polio Outbreak Simulation Exercise (POSE). This was through a two-day Tabletop Exercise (TTX) conducted from 29 to 30 November […]

Women are recording disturbing figures of mental health in the Tano South Municipality of the Ahafo Region, with 1,345 new cases being recorded this year. Most of the affected young girls and women are between 16 and 74-years, and are suffering from epilepsy, psychosis, and migraine. Substance abuse and alcoholism…

ISLAMABAD: Despite claims of an increase in routine immunization rates in the country, at least 39 children and teenagers have so far died across Pakistan due to deadly infectious diphtheria, a...

A section of the public, including Joan Atippo, a senior journalist at a popular media organisation in Accra, declined to take the COVID-19 jab. She was caught in the web of conspiracy theories including one which, claimed that the vaccine had a microchip embedded in it. “I do not know…

The campaign will run between Oct 31 and Nov 5 in Lahore, Multan, Rawalpindi, Bahawalpur, and Okara.

The campaign will run between Oct 31 and Nov 5 in Lahore, Multan, Rawalpindi, Bahawalpur, and Okara.

"The recent global focus on immunization inequity and the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the critical role that trust, demand, and quality play in encouraging vaccination uptake so that immunization programs are both valued by and can reach everyone." Immunisation service experience (SE) includes the factors within and beyond the interactions betwee

"...models examining demand for vaccination may underestimate the complexity of the issue by not incorporating a sufficient range of contextual factors, which may in turn impede the design of optimal solutions." Much scholarship on demand for vaccination in sub-Saharan Africa considers barriers primary caregivers (usually mothers) face when seeking