In the wake of severe flooding and landslides in Sierra Leone, more than 1 million doses of cholera vaccines will… [Read More]
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Sierra Leone to Begin Cholera Vaccination Drive in Disaster-Affected Areas (WHO)
Post Date: 09/07/2017
Pregnant Women & the Zika Virus Vaccine Research Agenda: Ethics Guidance on Priorities, Inclusion, and Evidence Generation (2017)
Post Date: 06/30/2017
The Ethics Working Group on ZIKV Research & Pregnancy, “Pregnant Women & The Zika Virus Vaccine Research Agenda: Ethics Guidance… [Read More]
Trials and Tribulations: Ethics of Clinical Trials and Vaccine Research in India (Himal)
Post Date: 01/20/2017
Srinivasan takes a closer look at the use and abuse of clinical trials and vaccine research in India, paying attention… [Read More]
Increased Use of Recommended Maternal Health Care as a Determinant of Immunization and Appropriate Care for Fever and Diarrhoea in Ghana: An Analysis Pooling Three Demographic and Health Surveys (McGlynn, 2015)
Post Date: 09/20/2015
McGlynn, Natalie, Piotr Wilk, Isaac Luginaah et al., “Increased Use of Recommended Maternal Health Care as a Determinant of Immunization… [Read More]
More Evidence on the Impact of India’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program, Janani Suraksha Yojana: Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of the Effects on Childhood Immunization and Other Reproductive and Child Health Outcomes (Carvalho, 2014)
Post Date: 10/20/2014
Carvalho, Natalie, Naveen Thacker, Subodh S. Gupta et al., “More Evidence on the Impact of India’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program,… [Read More]
Socioeconomic Dynamics of Gender Disparity in Childhood Immunization in India, 1992-2006 (Prusty, 2014)
Post Date: 08/27/2014
Prusty, Ranjan Kumar, and Abhishek Kumar, “Socioeconomic Dynamics of Gender Disparity in Childhood Immunization in India, 1992-2006,” PLOS One 9,… [Read More]
Immunization Coverage Reaches 84%, Still Short of 90% Goal (WHO)
Post Date: 07/20/2014
More than 111 million infants received vaccines in 2013 to protect them from deadly diseases. These infants account for about… [Read More]
Rare Afghan Polio Case Tied to Pakistan (Nordland, 2014)
Post Date: 03/13/2014
Rod Nordland, “Rare Afghan Polio Case Tied to Pakistan,” The New York Times, February 11, 2014. URL: www.nytimes.com/2014/02/12/world/asia/rare-afghan-polio-case-tied-to-pakistan.html?_r=1 Although Afghanistan… [Read More]
Evaluation of Policies and Practices to Prevent Mother to Child Transmission of Hepatitis B Virus in China (Cui, 2013)
Post Date: 03/07/2014
Cui, Fuqiang, et al. “Evaluation of Policies and Practices to Prevent Mother to Child Transmission of Hepatitis B Virus… [Read More]
U.N. Confirms an Outbreak of Polio in Syria (Cumming-Bruce)
Post Date: 03/07/2014
An outbreak of polio has been reported in Syria, where thousands of children have not been vaccinated because of the… [Read More]
