Immunization programs offered in low- and middle-income countries provide a high "return on investment" in terms of the economic costs of diseases that are prevented and the values of lives that would ...

Health experts say this over and over again: “Vaccination saves lives.” But due to the pandemic, most of us try to avoid visits to our doctors for routine vaccinations and other primary care services ...

Earlier this summer, the Board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, took several steps to bolster the sustainability of the immunization programs it supports in the world’s 49 lowest-income countries. One ...

Much of the substantial progress seen in global health over the past several decades can be ascribed to the beneficial impacts of various vaccines and immunization programs on the control of serious ...

Adolescents can harmlessly carry the meningococcus bacteria in the back of the throat with only a very small proportion developing the disease. Meningococcal B is one of the most common strains that ...

Late-breaking data show infant respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) hospitalizations reduced by 69% in Spain following Beyfortus-only immunization targeted to all infants and 26.7% in the UK following ...

In Canada, publicly funded immunization programs are a provincial/territorial responsibility. In the province of Quebec, much effort has been devoted to optimize the acceptability, effectiveness and ...

A new study of 129 countries found that the interruption of inoculation efforts could put 80 million babies at risk of getting deadly, preventable diseases. By Jan Hoffman The widespread interruption ...

Many mass immunization efforts worldwide were halted this spring to prevent spread of the virus at crowded inoculation sites. The consequences have been alarming. By Jan Hoffman and Ruth Maclean As ...