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On April 25, Benin will begin administering RTS,S malaria vaccines to children, in a move experts anticipate will turn the tide on a disease that claims more than 10,000 lives a year.

Each year, the World Health Organization (WHO) partakes in World Immunization Week, a period of reflection, raising awareness, and future planning surrounding global action required to combat vaccine-preventable illness.1

ECDC data show that measles and pertussis cases are on the rise again after a post–COVID-19 pandemic decline.

By Saio Marrah In an effort to expand the Covid-19 vaccination drive, officials of the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MOHS) have targeted 70% of the Sierra Leonean population for vaccination by December this year.

Experts raise alarm over rising cases of vaccine-preventable diseases.

Though new vaccines often meet with parental wariness, health workers on the ground say mums and babies are turning out in force for the RTS,S jab.

The Ghana Health Service (GHS), in an effort to reduce the prevalence of the human papillomavirus among women in Ghana, will roll out a vaccination...

The Ministry of Health in collaboration with Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, World Health Organization (WHO), and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), has announced the arrival of 112,000 doses of RTS, S malaria vaccine - the first ever in Liberia.

Ignorance and suspicion stand in the way of large-scale HPV vaccine coverage in Cameroon, says Florence Manjuh. She intends to change that. 

Cameroon kicks off malaria vaccine rollout