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Article by Social Share Washington – The Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) on Monday urged countries to close the immunisation gap that resulted in hundreds of thousands of children missing vaccinations last year, due in part to the interruptions in health services because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The call for stepped-up immunization coincides with the April 24-30 Vaccination Week in the Americas and World Immunization Week, regional and global events when countries launch immunization campaigns. The 2021 theme, “Vaccines bring us closer”, highlights the need to focus on cl...

Publication Date "TAG emphasizes the vital role of [the] One Team approach in achieving the eradication goals and highlights the critical importance of fully integrating operational and communication strategies and activities." In its virtual meeting, held March 17, 18, and 20 2021, the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) recognised the challenges faced by the Polio Eradication Initiative (PEI) in Afghanistan, including co-circulation of both wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) and circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) in the context of a deteriorating security situation across the co...

2021-04-08 16:30:35 GMT2021-04-09 00:30:35(Beijing Time) Xinhua English by Arison Tamfu YAOUNDE, April 8 (Xinhua) -- After testing hundreds of people for coronavirus, Cameroonian nurse, Judith Maya, plans a hero's welcome for the first arrival of COVID-19 vaccines in the Central African nation. "I have seen people die within days after I test them positive. I need protection and can't wait to be vaccinated", the 35-year-old told Xinhua in the capital Yaounde where the country's first batch of COVID-19 vaccines are expected to arrive at the weekend. The delivery of 200,000 doses of Sino...

What Ansa McAl vaccines offer says about governance in Trinidad and Tobago 2 Days Ago On Tuesday, TT received the first batch of vaccines through the Covax facility. Receiving the vaccines at the Piarco International airport are, from left, Anesa Doodnath-Siboo, acting principal pharmacist at the Ministry of Health; PAHO/WHO country representative Dr Erica Wheeler; Health Minister Terrence Dayalsingh; chief medical officer Dr Roshan Parasaram; and Grace Sookchand, manager, Expanded Programme on Immunization. Photo taken from Ministry of Health Facebook page - There is a saying that a cynical...

All the doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine have been distributed Almost all 600,000 doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine received from the COVAX facility have been distributed in the first phase of the vaccination exercise. Dr Kwame Amponsah-Achiano, the Programme Manager of the Extended Programme on Immunization (EPI), said the first consignment received in February were almost exhausted and, so far, the programme had not received any report of vaccine rejection in any of the 43 districts they were deployed to. He told the Ghana News Agency in an Interview in Accra that there was more pres...