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Children in fragile states missing out on lifesaving vaccines
New vaccination figures show millions more children being immunised in world’s poorest countries.
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TCV is 85% efficacious and urgently needed for Bangladeshi children
New study finds TCV prevents 85% of cases among vaccinated children in Bangladesh, which has one of the highest typhoid burdens in the world.
“My heart is always stuck in my homeland”: A Rohingya returnee’s story
Abdullah and his family escaped genocidal violence in Myanmar in 2017, survived a diphtheria epidemic in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar and weathered the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in a Rohingya camp. Then, in December 2020, he returned to the…
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Gavi launches new learning initiative to address the final barriers to immunisation equity
Reaching the millions of “zero-dose” children who have yet to receive a single vaccine represents one of the final – and most complex – barriers to overcome in the push for global immunisation equity
Over the next few years, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and partners will focus efforts to revitalise access to the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to reach 86 million adolescent girls, rapidly recover and improve coverage, and help build…
The Government of Bangladesh launches nationwide human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination campaign
The Government of Bangladesh, supported by UNICEF, the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi), and WHO, has launched a ground-breaking Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination campaign.
With the support of Gavi, UNICEF and WHO, the campaign will cover the remaining seven divisions across the country, following the completion of phase one in Dhaka.