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NPR's Juana Summers talks with Dr. Hamid Jafari, director of Polio Eradication for the WHO's Eastern Mediterranean region, about the effort to administer some 600,000 vaccines in Gaza.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Dr. Steven Furr of the American Academy of Family Physicians about childhood vaccination rates, as measles cases continue to climb around the country.

Stephenson Ojeifo, the Director of Public Health at the Edo State Ministry of Health has revealed that the state recorded two deaths due to diphtheria between January and August 2024. Speaking in Benin on Monday, Ojeifo disclosed that the…

A large polio vaccination campaign started in war-torn Gaza on Sunday, September 1. The initiative, which is being led by the World Health Organization (WHO), aims to reach over 640,000 children under the age of ten.

Research at Weill Cornell Medicine suggests that childhood immunization against HIV could one day provide protection before the risk of contracting this potentially fatal infection dramatically increases in adolescence.

The two deaths were from the six confirmed cases of the disease recorded during the same period.

Fighting in parts of Gaza has paused to allow young children to be vaccinated against polio.

Minnesota health officials are urging families to stay up to date on measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccines as more unvaccinated children in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area are getting ill from a measles outbreak.

The campaign began on Saturday and aims to reach about 640,000 children after the Strip reported its first polio case in 25 years.

A Hyderabad-based vaccine manufacturer has achieved a breakthrough in COVID-19 vaccination technology by developing a needle-free booster vaccine

The Minnesota Vaccines for Children program provides free or low-cost vaccines for children in Minnesota who are uninsured.

CAIRO/GAZA >> The United Nations, in collaboration with Palestinian health authorities, began to vaccinate 640,000 children in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, with Israel and Hamas agreeing to brief pauses in their 11-month-old war to allow the…

UN aid agencies in Gaza began to roll out a polio vaccination campaign on Sunday. But the drive could face major challenges from the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.

Families queue at vaccination centres on first day of complex campaign to inoculate children against emerging threat

The much-anticipated UN-led campaign to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of Gaza children against polio began on Sunday. The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) reports that although the program technically began a day later in…

…To distribute 9980 doses across 5 States By Sola Ogundipe The National Primary Health Car Development Agency (NPHCDA) has confirmed the start of Nigeria’s mpox vaccination campaign on Monday October 8, 2024, just as the Nigeria Centre for…

Authorities plan to vaccinate children in central Gaza until Wednesday before moving on to the more devastated northern and southern parts of the strip. The campaign began with a small number of vaccinations on Saturday and aims to reach…

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Palestinian health authorities and United Nations agencies on Sunday began a large-scale campaign of vaccinations against polio in the Gaza Strip, hoping to prevent an outbreak in the territory that has been…

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinian health authorities and United Nations agencies on Sunday began a large-scale campaign of…

Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. Deir al- Palestinian health authorities and United Nations agencies on Sunday began a large-scale campaign of vaccinations against polio in the Gaza Strip, hoping to prevent an outbreak…