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Maternal neonatal tetanus, which kills a baby every 9 minutes, eliminated in half of high-risk countries NEW YORK, May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Tetanus, one of the most deadly diseases a mother and her newborn can face, has been eliminated in more than half of affected countries targeted by UNICEF just 13 years ago. The milestone was announced today at the annual meeting of the Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus Elimination Initiative at UNICEF headquarters. Tetanus kills one...
Global Leaders Unite to Give All Children a Healthy Start to Life ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 300 global leaders, health and development experts, vaccinators, celebrities, philanthropists, and business leaders will gather tomorrow in Abu Dhabi in the first Global Vaccine Summit to endorse the critical role that vaccines and immunization play in giving children a healthy start to life. Despite tremendous progress, one child still dies...
Lucintel Research Outlines Growth of Global Human Vaccine Industry Irving, TX (PRWEB) April 20, 2013 The global vaccine industry comprises primarily human vaccine production. The annual revenue of this industry is forecast to reach an estimated $41.85 billion by 2018, with good growth over the next five years. Pfizer entered the top five player list in 2012 replacing Wyeth. Sanofi Aventis, Novartis AG, Merck Company, and GlaxoSmithKline are the other players in the top five players list....
Global leaders unite to reaffirm commitment to end polio and improve child health ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Under the patronage of His Highness General Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, and in partnership with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, it was announced today...
As global economic troubles continue, cuts in global health funding from the US government and other donors may signal the conclusion of an era of rapid growth Despite dire predictions in the wake of the economic crisis, donations to health projects in developing countries appear to be holding steady, according to new research from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. After reaching a historic high of $28.2 billion in 2010, development...
Affordable, safe, effective vaccine protecting young people from devastating disease GENEVA, Dec. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A revolutionary meningitis vaccine will reach the 100 millionth person this week in a region of Africa that has been plagued by deadly epidemics for more than a century. The milestone will take place in northern Nigeria, part of Africa's "meningitis belt," where the country is conducting its second seasonal immunisation campaign against the disease....
Special supplemental issue of the journal Vaccine provides critical insights on rotavirus vaccine performance to help maximize their impact in developing countries Rotavirus vaccines offer the best hope for preventing severe rotavirus disease and the deadly dehydrating diarrhea that it causes, particularly in low-resource settings where treatment for rotavirus infection is limited or unavailable, according to studies published in the April 2012 special supplement to the journal Vaccine....
The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization announced on Thursday an initiative to purchase cervical cancer vaccines for up to 2 million women and girls in nine developing nations by 2015. The plan is contingent upon negotiating a final price deal with manufacturers, the group said following a meeting this week in Bangladesh, where GAVI’s board gave the green light to the program. The vaccine would immunize girls and women against the human papillomavirus, or HPV, a sexually...
Advances lauded as Malawi becomes next developing country to introduce pneumococcal vaccine on Saturday -- World Pneumonia Day Vaccines against the primary cause of deaths from pneumonia in developing countries could save millions of lives and are highly cost-effective, according to a comprehensive new analysis to be released on Thursday, Nov. 10. In a paper published in the journal International Health, the authors estimate that two pneumococcal vaccines being introduced in the world's...
ATLANTA, Sept. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Vaccinating infants against rotavirus has resulted in dramatic decreases in health care use and treatment costs for diarrhea-related illness in U.S. infants and young children, according to a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study is published in the current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. "This is good news for parents and our health system overall," said Dr. Umesh Parashar, medical...
