Sudan: Health Ministry Hails National Polio Vaccination Campaign a Success
[Dabanga] Khartoum -- Reports from the various states of Sudan indicate the success of the first round of the national campaign to respond to the polio epidemic and eliminate vitamin A deficiency by more than 90 per cent in all localities in the states. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - March 27, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
What Is Polio? London Kids To Get Vaccine Against Rare Disease
Children will be offered a top-up shot against polio, an extremely rare virus that ’s been found in trace amounts in the city’s sewers. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - March 25, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Katherine Hignett, Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation Source Type: news
Polio vaccine catch-up campaign for London as sewage surveillance findings suggest reduced transmission
No further vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (VDPV2) isolates detected since Nov 2022. Vaccination rates in London lower than rest of country (87.6% vs 92.1% England). NHS London will soon be delivering catch-up campaign for unvaccinated/partially vaccinated children age 1-11 yrs (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - March 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Vaccination Coverage Among Children in Kindergarten 2021-2022 Vaccination Coverage Among Children in Kindergarten 2021-2022
During the 2021-22 school year, coverage with MMR, DTaP, polio, and varicella vaccines among kindergarten children fell slightly from the pre-pandemic years, according to this CDC report.Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - March 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health & Prevention Journal Article Source Type: news
News at a glance: Modernizing bed nets, IDing a Solar System visitor, and health lessons from Beethoven ’s hair
PUBLIC HEALTH
Next-gen bed nets get go-ahead
A new type of malaria-fighting bed net
received a major endorsement
from the World Health Organization (WHO) last week. The net combines two chemicals to more effectively kill the mosquitoes that transmit the parasite behind malaria, a disease that killed an estimated 619,000 people in 2022, most of them young children in sub-Saharan Africa. Insecticide-treated bed nets have helped drive malaria rates down dramatically. But in recent years, resistance to the insecticide used to treat nets, pyrethroid, has been spreading. That has contributed to ...
Source: ScienceNOW - March 23, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Polio vaccine catch-up push to launch in London
London primary-school pupils not fully vaccinated against polio are to be offered catch-up jabs after Easter. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus Detected in Burundi, Congo Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus Detected in Burundi, Congo
Health officials in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have detected cases of vaccine-derived poliovirus, the World Health Organization and Global Polio Eradication Initiative said.Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - March 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news
Outbreak of Polio Linked to Newer Oral Vaccine Detected in Africa
(MedPage Today) -- For the first time, cases of paralytic polio have been linked to the novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2), with multiple cases detected in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Global Polio Eradication Initiative... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - March 17, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Is Our Polio Vaccine Strategy Mistaken? Is Our Polio Vaccine Strategy Mistaken?
The focus must switch from eradication of the polioviruses to the development of new long-term immunization policies that will minimize the silent circulation of polioviruses, researchers say.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines)
Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines - March 14, 2023 Category: Primary Care Tags: Public Health & Prevention News Source Type: news
New York issues polio warning for travelers to Israel amid outbreak
The state department of health said that anyone planning to visit the nation this spring should ensure they have got their polio vaccines. Israel has detected four cases in children in recent weeks. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Solar Powered Freezer Improving Immunization Coverage in Hard-to-Reach Rural Villages
Benson Musyoka rides his motorcycle from Kamboo health centre to transport vaccines to Yindalani village. Photo Joyce Chimbi/IPSBy Joyce ChimbiNAIROBI, Mar 13 2023 (IPS) Up until 2019, nurses in three health facilities located in the semi-arid south-eastern Kenya region of Makueni County struggled to bring critical health services closer to a hard-to-reach population scattered across three remote, far-flung villages.
“Kamboo, Yindalani and Yiuma Mavui villages are located 17 and 28 kilometres away from Makindu sub-county hospital, and 10 and 22 kilometres away from the nearest electricity grid,” Benson Musyoka, the nu...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 13, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Joyce Chimbi Tags: Africa COVID-19 Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Gender Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations Women's Health IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Kenya Source Type: news
Research Uncovers Cheaper Diagnostic Tools For Chronic Hepatitis B in Africa
This study adds guidance as to when such earlier diagnosis may be attained.
“However, research is one thing, health systems strengthening another. Studies like this one add to the impetus and arm the policymakers to make the right decisions,” he says.
But he urges communities to take charge of these findings instead of leaving action in the hands of “sometimes incapacitated policymakers’ hands.”
“The question should be, what is the community saying about findings such as these? If we wait for policymakers to decide when they are going to invest in hepatitis B interventions, we will wait for the rest of our ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Charles Mpaka Tags: Africa Featured Headlines Health TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Malawi Source Type: news
Ghana: Child Immunization Vaccine Shortage Hits Ghana
[VOA] Accra -- The Ghana Health Service says a shortage of routine vaccines for children blamed for a measles outbreak that infected 120 will be resolved within weeks. Health officials said the shortage of vaccines against polio, hepatitis B, and measles was caused by the depreciation of Ghana's currency, the cedi. The Pediatric Society of Ghana warned childhood diseases could quickly spread if the vaccines were not soon made available. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 28, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Pakistan ’s Free Healthcare Insurance Benefits Women, Poor
Universal Health Care priorities in Pakistan have been boosted by free healthcare insurance for the poor. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPSBy Ashfaq YusufzaiPESHAWAR, Feb 22 2023 (IPS) A free health insurance initiative started in Pakistan has benefited poor patients, especially women who have outnumbered men in using the cashless health services under the Sehat Card Plus programme.
“The initiative is in line with the ICPD25 Programme of Action, under which 4.5 million people have received free services, with 62 percent of them women. In the last three years, we have been able to cut down maternal mortality rate from 186 d...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 22, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ashfaq Yusufzai Tags: Asia-Pacific Development & Aid Featured Gender Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies Population TerraViva United Nations Women's Health IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Pakistan Source Type: news
Nigeria: Nigeria Close to Eliminating Vaccine Derived Poliovirus - Experts
[Daily Trust] Nigeria has recorded an 85% drop in the incidence of circulating Vaccine derived Poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) , the Expert Review Committee on Polio and Routine Immunisation, has said. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 10, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
