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WHO EMRO Weekly Epidemiological Monitor: Volume 14; Issue no 15; 11 April 2021 Format Strategic framework for ending cholera in the Region The strategic framework for ending cholera as a public health threat in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region has been developed to establish effective and efficient cholera prevention and outbreak preparedness and response capacities in Member States. This strategy prepares and guides countries in the Region to implement comprehensive and effective prevention and control measures against cholera. Editorial Note Cholera remains a significant public health p...

Published: Apr 23, 2021 WATERLOO, Ontario, April 23, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- This World Meningitis Day (April 24 th), Meningitis Foundation Canada (MFC) is raising awareness of this ‘indiscriminate killer disease’ and calling on all Canadian provincial and territorial policymakers to act to #DefeatMeningitis by 2030. “This call aligns with the newly ratified ‘Global Roadmap to Defeat Meningitis by 2030’,” said MFC spokesperson, Michael Redfearn. The newly ratified ‘Global Roadmap to Defeat Meningitis’ is led by a WHO-multi-organization partnership. Understandably, countri...

Date Time Share Babies who survive Group B streptococcal disease more likely to require special educational support into their second decade London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Largest study of its kind shows infected babies face greater risk of neurodevelopmental impairments and underlines need for follow-up care for survivors and maternal GBS vaccines Invasive Group B Streptococcus (GBS) disease, notably meningitis, during the first days and months of a baby’s life can have persistent effects for children and hence their families, according to new research. Published in the Lanc...

"Any delay in diagnosis and treatment claims lives and leaves many others with serious lifelong after-effects."

Advancing vaccine development for gonorrhoea and the Global STI Vaccine Roadmap Efforts to develop vaccines against Neisseria gonorrhoeae have become increasingly important, given the rising threat of gonococcal antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Recent data suggest vaccines for gonorrhoea are biologically feasible, and vaccine candidates using several approaches are currently in development. The Global sexually transmitted infections (STIs) Vaccine Roadmap provides action steps to build on this technical momentum and advance gonococcal vaccine development. Better quantification of...