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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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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.