Has COVAX delivered on its vaccine access promises?

Organisations behind the vaccine arm seem to be losing interest in COVID-19

Brazil battles yellow fever

Japanese encephalitis in Assam

Matter of life and death

Low public funding in health exacerbates poverty, says Nigerian health minister

Nigeria's Minister of Health Isaac Adewole talks to Bennett Oghifo about the country's commitment to provide universal health coverage by 2030

WHO launches ‘The Big Catch-Up’ to restore immunisation progress lost during pandemic

More than 100 countries registered a drop in immunisation levels during the COVID-19 pandemic

India shocks with vaccine patent

Why did we grant Pfizer's claim on a pneumonia vaccine which has been rejected elsewhere?

Africa needs to vaccinate 33 million children within 2 years to be on global immunisation track: WHO

Decreased vaccination levels due to the pandemic have led to a surge in outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles, meningitis, …

Reach the last person

Will that crippling scourge called polio be wiped out from the face of the earth by the end of this year? The World Health Organization (WHO) …

Two hoots to AIDS

A controversial marrow transplant operation in the US, a faulty gene in a dormant strain of the HIV isolated in Australia, the Zinc Finger …

Low trust in authorities affects vaccine uptake: Evidence from 22 African countries

Nearly half of the world’s unvaccinated and under-vaccinated children live in Africa

Measles outbreak in Europe exposes gaps in vaccination coverage

Outbreaks will continue in Europe, as elsewhere, until every country reaches the level of immunisation needed to fully protect their populations

The cytokine factor

A group of genes help creating cytokines, which could either offer a protective cover against immunological diseases or else inflame them

Making life sweeter

The unfriendly response of the immune system is one of the main problems in pancreas transplant. But researchers have now developed an ingenious …

Number of children vaccinated last year is unimpressive

Despite an intensified immunisation scheme, children in the country are not fully immunised

NITI Aayog’s Health Index: Kerala on top; Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh among worst performers

However, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan are among the states that have shown progress in overall health outcomes

Cheaper vaccine to check hepatitis B

WHO's immunisation programme is expected to receive a tremendous boost thanks to the low-cost vaccine developed through genetic engineering

Malawi records Africa’s first wild polio virus cases in over 5 years

The case was detected in a three-year-old girl who began showing signs of paralysis from November 19, 2021

Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2021: How vaccines can help reduce India’s AMR burden

The vaccine provides an indirect but significant benefit at scale to preventing the emergence of AMR

Ghana faces hurdles to achieve targets set for COVID-19 vaccine rollout

At least 60% of Ghana’s 31 million residents will need to be vaccinated for the population to attain herd immunity. But a timeline for this …

Nine in every 10 children do not get adequate diet in Jharkhand, Bihar: NFHS data

Almost 69.9 per cent of children under five years in Jharkhand are acutely suffering from anaemia

Frontier guards

Invaded and ravaged by germs and pathogens every moment of its existence, the human body has developed its own lines of defence. Among the …

Chimp's aid

Chimps are not victimised by AIDS because a lethal sickness has made their immune system resistant to the disease

Measles cases double in 1st 2 months of 2022: What does this warn us of

Conditions ripe for serious outbreaks of vaccine-preventable illnesses: WHO, UNICEF 

Measles is back: cases reported in countries that had eradicated the disease

With outbreaks reported from across the world, measles' eradication by 2020 seems difficult