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The massive yellow fever vaccination campaign highlights why existing programmes need to be strengthened.
There’s an effective vaccine – but it’s not always the best option.
They kill thousands of animals and people every year by spreading rabies. New research findings could solve the problem.
Individual stories of perceived vaccine harms can undermine trust in vaccine safety, even if people don’t believe the vaccine was to blame.
Prospective parents, aware of how devastating whooping cough can be, want to leave no stone unturned to protect their baby. But is No Vax, No Visit supported by the best evidence?
Every year hundreds of thousands of children die from vaccine-preventable diseases. Africa leaders could change this if they improved vaccination efforts.
Overall rates of vaccine objection have remained largely unchanged since 2001.
New initiative with old handsets halves rates of the disease in southern Tanzania – and is being applied to other conditions, too.
Edward Jenner deliberately infected a young boy with cowpox and then smallpox. But his method wasn’t as mad as is often made out.
Myths about vaccines have resurfaced once again. Here is why you shouldn’t believe them.
As more vaccines have been developed, the challenge of delivering them with minimal pain and number of visits to the doctor has increased. Needle-free vaccinations might help.
When a high proportion of a community is immune it becomes hard for diseases to spread from person to person – a phenomenon known as herd immunity.
Two major clinical trials will be conducted in South Africa in 2016 to test ways of preventing new HIV infections.
Despite the success of mass immunisation campaigns in Africa, the continent still lags behind in meeting global vaccination targets.
A Harvard University researcher last week suggested western women stop breastfeeding after a couple of months to reduce the risk of passing potentially harmful toxins on to infants via breast milk.
Media coverage of a recent study involving a “leaky” vaccine raised questions about the possibility that they could make viruses more dangerous.
Eradicating the last 1% of polio cases in the world requires an endgame plan centred on immunisation and surveillance.
The positive impact of the polio eradication initiatives on the continent can be felt across the health sector in other health programmes.
It’s been one year since the last polio case was reported in Africa. If the continent keeps this up, it could be declared polio free by 2018.
Top contributors
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Professor, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Discipline of Childhood and Adolescent Health, University of Sydney
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Professor, Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Sydney
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Hon Prof, Dept of Child & Adolescent Health, University of Sydney
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Professor of Infectious Diseases, Monash University
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Regional Adviser, Immunisation, WHO Regional Office for Africa, Stellenbosch University
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Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Honorary Research Fellow, Macquarie University
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Associate Principal Research Fellow, Burnet Institute
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate professor, UNSW Sydney
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Paediatrician, Infectious Diseases Physician and Clinical Microbiologist, Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia
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Research Fellow, Vaccine Uptake Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
