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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 people don't have factual information, and others are uncertain about the vaccines. I must educate them...

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 infection causes substantial disease in young children globally and that the burden of RSV in high-incom...

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 country, socio-cultural, economic, and (geo)political factors significantly shape local perceptions a...

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 authorities carried out proper vaccination programmes. A vaccine helps a child’s immune system to fight...