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Covax, the Developing World ’ s Hope against COVID, Has Made It Only Halfway
Delivery of syringes for the vaccination campaign in El Salvador. Latin American countries have made steady progress in immunizing their populations, partly through direct negotiations between their governments and suppliers and partly through international cooperation. CREDIT: PAHO By Humberto MárquezCARACAS, Jan 20 2022 (IPS) The Covax initiative, the hope of the countries of the developing South to immunize their populations against COVID-19, only met half of its goals in 2021. And as 2022 begins, and the omicron variant of the virus is spreading fast, the scheme still depends on the decisions of pharmaceutical compani...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - January 20, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Humberto Marquez Tags: COVID-19 Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Global Global Governance Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies Regional Categories TerraViva United Nations COVAX COVID-19 vaccines Source Type: news

Newborn screening for severe combined immunodeficiency-Coming to a region near you soon
Clin Exp Immunol. 2021 Jul 8. doi: 10.1111/cei.13642. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe most profound of primary immunodeficiencies, severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), presents in infancy. Infants appear healthy at birth, but they are unable to clear pathogens, particularly viruses, and present with recurrent infection, progressive pnueumonitis and failure to thrive due to enteric viral infection, often associated with persistent vaccine-strain rotavirus. The administration of live vaccines is contraindicated in these infants, but most who are eligible receive bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccination and the live rotavi...
Source: Clinical and Developmental Immunology - July 8, 2021 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: David A C Elliman Andrew R Gennery Source Type: research

The impact of publicly funded rotavirus immunization programs on Canadian children
CONCLUSION: Public funding of the rotavirus vaccine appeared to lead to significant reductions in laboratory-confirmed rotavirus cases reported to the National Enteric Surveillance Program and in the rates of rotavirus gastroenteritis-related hospital discharges.PMID:33746618 | PMC:PMC7968475 | DOI:10.14745/ccdr.v47i02a02
Source: Can Commun Dis Rep - March 22, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Pia K Muchaal Matt Hurst Shalini Desai Source Type: research