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What you need to know about child vaccinations - Medshield
What you need to know about child vaccinations - Medshield

Issued by Stone 22 May 2023

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African leaders pledge to drive routine immunisation and polio eradication

20 Mar 2023

Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Vaccination drive hits Western Cape amidst growing measles outbreak in SA

27 Feb 2023

Source: Supplied. Chief executive officer of Cipla, Paul Miller.
Measles vaccine rollout ramped up amid outbreak

21 Feb 2023

Source: DynaMedex.
SA measles outbreak of concern, NICD warns as case surge hits 80% worldwide

Katja Hamilton 13 Jan 2023

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Childhood vaccinations on the decline since Covid-19 pandemic outbreak

7 Dec 2022

Source: Reuters.
Zimbabwe measles outbreak blamed on sect gatherings kills 157 children

Nyasha Chingono 17 Aug 2022

Source: Reuters/Denis Balibouse. WHO regional director for Africa Matshidiso Moeti.
Kenya, World Health Organization launch emergency hub

Ayenat Mersie, Elias Biryabarema and Jason Neely 11 Jul 2022

Vaccination is simply the best defence against Covid-19
Vaccination is simply the best defence against Covid-19

Dr Elton Dorkin 6 Dec 2021

Source: ©Elvira Koneva
Compulsory Covid-19 vaccines?

28 Sep 2021

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Amended 2021 school calendar will be retained

30 Aug 2021

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Africa has few vaccines: Here's what can still be done to minimise the impact of Covid-19

Deoraj Caussy 30 Jun 2021

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Vaccinations will open up the country and our economy

4 Jun 2021

Coronavirus variants have new names: we can finally stop stigmatising countries
Coronavirus variants have new names: we can finally stop stigmatising countries

Ed Feil 3 Jun 2021

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

Jean-Francois Maystadt, Kalle Hirvonen & Nik Stoop 21 May 2021

In It Together: Cotton On partners with Unicef to help deliver 1 million Covid-19 vaccines to the world's most vulnerable
In It Together: Cotton On partners with Unicef to help deliver 1 million Covid-19 vaccines to the world's most vulnerable

Issued by Cotton On Group 20 May 2021

Ebola virus virion. CDC/Cynthia Goldsmith
Ebola might be a chronic infection - but here's why we shouldn't panic

Connor Bamford 1 Apr 2021

Solar energy is an invaluable resource in rural areas like this facility in Gambia. Gavi/2018/Guido Dingemans
Solar technologies can speed up vaccine rollout in Africa. Here's how

Cyrus Sinai & Rob Fetter 23 Mar 2021

Train passengers carried out a Covid-19 detection test with the GeNose C19 screening at Pasar Turi Station, Surabaya, February 15, 2021. ANTARA FOTO/Didik Suhartono/rwa
Indonesian-made Covid-19 breathalyser sensitivity comparable to RT-PCR

17 Mar 2021

Dr Cyprian Ngong, a staff member of National Hospital, Abuja, receives Covid-19 vaccine. Adam Abu-basha/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Nigeria at sixes and sevens on Covid-19 vaccine rollout

Solomon Bakarey 15 Mar 2021

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Viruses can hijack cellular process in order to block immune response

22 Feb 2021

Misinformation on social media fuels vaccine hesitancy: a global study shows the link
Misinformation on social media fuels vaccine hesitancy: a global study shows the link

28 Dec 2020

Professor Felicity Burt
SARS, MERS research paved way for rapid development of Covid-19 vaccines

8 Dec 2020

A substantial proportion of people may refuse or delay taking a Covid-19 vaccine. Shutterstock
Misinformation on social media fuels vaccine hesitancy: a global study shows the link

Steven Lloyd Wilson & Charles Shey Wiysonge 4 Dec 2020

To suppress the Covid-19 pandemic, tens of millions of South Africans would have to be vaccinated. Nothing at that scale has been done here before. Photo: Armin Kübelbeck (CC-BY-SA via Wikimedia Commons)
Vaccinating tens of millions of people will be very difficult

James Stent & Nathan Geffen 27 Nov 2020

Is Covid-19 a bacteria or a virus? Affinity Health explains the differences
Is Covid-19 a bacteria or a virus? Affinity Health explains the differences

Issued by Affinity Health 26 Nov 2020

Dr Matshidiso Moeti, regional head, Africa, World Health Organisation
Africa's fragile health system hit hard by Covid-19

9 Nov 2020

The Grand Hotel Taipei in Taiwan lights up rooms to mark five days with no new COVID-19 cases.
Is reaching zero Covid-19 possible?

Kingston Mills 22 Oct 2020

Congolese artist Chris Shongo paints on the outside wall of the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Kinshasa on June 18, 2020.
Covid-19 shows that the DRC must invest in a health research industry

Dacquin M. Kasumba 14 Aug 2020

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Antibiotic resistance: cheap diagnostic test could be a saviour

Lara Marks & Ankur Mutreja 11 Aug 2020

A child receives a vaccine against Ebola from a nurse in Goma on August 7, 2019. AUGUSTIN WAMENYA/AFP via Getty Images
The coping mechanisms the DRC is putting in place as it faces Ebola, measles and Covid-19

Yap Boum 23 Jun 2020

Misha Jordaan/Gallo Images via Getty Images
The new architectural frontier: buildings and their microbiomes

Jako Nice 15 Jun 2020

A deserted street in Cairo after coronavirus-related restrictions were tightened. Egypt has been one of the hardest hit in Africa. Photo by Mohamed Elraai/picture alliance via Getty Images
Controlling Covid-19 will carry devastating economic cost for developing countries

Borja Santos Porras 4 Jun 2020

Healthcare workers testing people in Nairobi, Kenya during a mass testing exercise for Covid-19. Photo by SIMON MAINA/AFP via Getty Images
Sub-Saharan Africa needs to plug local knowledge gap to up its anti-Covid-19 game

Alex Ezeh & Sharon Fonn 28 May 2020

Welcome to the latest Monty Python fiasco
Welcome to the latest Monty Python fiasco

Chris Brewer 21 May 2020

Vaccines are some of the most equitable and cost-effective health interventions available. ranplett/GettyImages
Why a campaign to champion all vaccines matters now more than ever

Katherine E Gallagher, Anthony Scott, Ifedayo Adetifa, John Ojal, Shirine Voller & Wangeci Kagucia 5 May 2020

Children at window of a building in Hillbrow, Johannesburg. Children will be vulnerable if vaccinations are postponed. Photo by Marco Longari/AFP via Getty Images
Coronavirus risks forcing South Africa to make health trade-offs it can ill afford

Karen Hofman & Susan Goldstein 17 Apr 2020

Not your grandmother’s vaccine. Maria Croyle, CC BY-ND
Vaccines without needles - new shelf-stable film could revolutionise how medicines are distributed worldwide

Maria Croyle 6 Mar 2020

Bill Chen at San Francisco International Airport after arriving on a flight from Shanghai. Chen said his temperature was screened at the Shanghai airport before he departed. AP Photo/Terry Chea
Airplanes spread diseases quickly - so maybe unvaccinated people shouldn't be allowed to fly

Christopher Robertson & Keith Joiner 4 Mar 2020

Lessons from keeping the country free of Ebola have informed steps taken since the coronavirus scare first broke. Shutterstock
Nigeria and disease outbreaks. Better prepared, but still weak spots

Folasade Ogunsola 4 Feb 2020

Successful vaccination against measles in childhood should provide lifetime protection. Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images
Explainer: a history of the measles virus and why it's so tenacious

Matthew Ferrari 28 Jan 2020

HIV-infected and exposed children are vulnerable to vaccine-preventable diseases. Shutterstock
Children and HIV: what we found about vaccine-preventable diseases

Olatunji Adetokunboh 9 Dec 2019

A Nigerian child receives a dose of the polio vaccine. EPA
Complacency could delay the final push to eradicate polio

Villyen Motaze & Melinda Suchard 5 Dec 2019

Global study reveals CEO confidence is sinking
Global study reveals CEO confidence is sinking

7 Nov 2019

Unicef carers at a creche for children whose parents are being treated for Ebola. Building health infrastructure is crucial to stopping the next outbreak. Epa/ Hugh Kinsella Cunningham
Investing in health systems is the only way to stop the next Ebola outbreak

Emma Glennon & Freya Jephcott 22 Oct 2019

World Health Organisation
More than 18-million Ugandan children to be immunised against measles, rubella and polio

15 Oct 2019

Many families in the DRC can’t routinely access preventive services. Shutterstock
Outbreaks of measles: compounding challenges in the DRC

Matthew Ferrari 8 Oct 2019

Hugh Kinsella Cunningham/EPA-EFE
Ebola one year on: the wins, the setbacks, and the way forward

Shirin Ashraf & Emma Thomson 30 Sep 2019

Tedros Ghebreyesus, embarrassed to only talk about Ebola. Salvatore Di Nolfi/EPA
Over 3,000 killed by deadly virus in Democratic Republic of the Congo this year - and it's not Ebola

Jeremy Rossman & Matthew Badham 19 Sep 2019

The vaccine coverage needed for herd immunity varies from disease to disease. Ryoji Iwata/Unsplash
What is herd immunity and how many people need to be vaccinated to protect a community?

Hassan Vally 9 Sep 2019

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