Immunization programs are among the most essential instruments and achievements in public health globally, clubbed together with clean water and better healthcare access in their importance for longer ...

The number of cases of meningitis and blood poisoning is decreasing, and this is clearly due to the inclusion, since 2006, of pneumococcal disease into the child immunization program. "Before it was ...

Immunization strategies have been instrumental in controlling and eradicating diseases on a global scale. By analyzing successful campaigns, valuable lessons can be learned to strengthen future ...

Routine immunization programs can serve as a critical platform for a nation’s global health security strategy, both because they help prevent disease outbreaks and because they have the potential to ...

The January 20 Executive Order pausing United States foreign development assistance for a 90-day review effectively stopped work on a wide variety of U.S.-supported global health security programs, ...

Vaccines are a safe and highly effective way to prevent common diseases that used to seriously harm or even kill infants, children and adults. When children have all their recommended vaccines on ...

Groundbreaking advances in medicine have made many of the world’s worst diseases preventable. On May 14th, 1796, the English physician Edward Jenner carefully infected eight-year-old James Phipps with ...

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the leading cause of lower respiratory tract infections in infants and children younger than 2 years. The most severe and life-threatening cases typically affect ...