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Global leaders highlight the need to defeat meningitis – a leading cause of disability – at a high-level meeting co-hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO) and Government of France, under the High Patronage of Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic. The event is taking place on 26-27 April 2024 at the Institut Pasteur and is supported by prominent athletes advocating on the cause ahead of the Paris Paralympics.

Global leaders highlight the need to defeat meningitis – a leading cause of disability – at a high-level meeting co-hosted by the World Health Organization and Government of France, under the High Patronage of Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic.

Investigators in France revealed the outbreak and said it had been caused by listeria in vegan cheese. This may have got into the products because they used nut milk, they said.

On 24 April 2024, the World Health Organization will host the first high-level meeting to defeat meningitis. The event will be live streamed from this page.

Building on recent progress against meningitis, including the rollout of a highly safe and effective new vaccine in Nigeria to help end large-scale meningitis outbreaks, global leaders are coming together at the Institut Pasteur on 26 April 2024 in Paris to discuss implementation of the global roadmap for “Defeating Meningitis by 2030”. Spearheaded by the