Immunization programs offered in low- and middle-income countries provide a high "return on investment" in terms of the economic costs of diseases that are prevented and the values of lives that would ...

Adolescents can harmlessly carry the meningococcus bacteria in the back of the throat with only a very small proportion developing the disease. Meningococcal B is one of the most common strains that ...

U.N. and global health experts warned that poor countries around the world were having to stop mass immunization programs to reduce the risk of spreading Covid-19. By Jan Hoffman More than 100 million ...

Earlier this summer, the Board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, took several steps to bolster the sustainability of the immunization programs it supports in the world’s 49 lowest-income countries. One ...

Health experts say this over and over again: “Vaccination saves lives.” But due to the pandemic, most of us try to avoid visits to our doctors for routine vaccinations and other primary care services ...

Much of the substantial progress seen in global health over the past several decades can be ascribed to the beneficial impacts of various vaccines and immunization programs on the control of serious ...

Today, the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), representing the country’s nearly 3,000 local health departments, released new data documenting the impact of the COVID-19 ...

In Canada, publicly funded immunization programs are a provincial/territorial responsibility. In the province of Quebec, much effort has been devoted to optimize the acceptability, effectiveness and ...

Late-breaking data show infant respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) hospitalizations reduced by 69% in Spain following Beyfortus-only immunization targeted to all infants and 26.7% in the UK following ...