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Ghana:Eastern Region hits Polio vaccination targets

The Eastern Regional Disease Control Unit (DCU) says preliminary figures shows that  it has achieved the 100 percent target set for the Oral Polio Vaccination (OPV) exercise in the Region….

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Ghana:600,000 children to be vaccinated against Polio in the W/R

The Western Regional Immunization taskforce has stated its intention to vaccinate 555,438 children below five years against Poliomyelitis in this year’s Immunization campaign. The vaccination exercise would start from June…

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Ghana excels in Child immunization

The routine and rigorous immunization exercises embarked on by Ghana has resulted in the country being classified among nations eliminating neonatal tetanus since 2011.     Ghana has also, since 2003, not…

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Make Polio History-Experts Declare

  Hundreds of scientists, doctors and other experts from around the world launched the Scientific Declaration on PolioEradication last week, declaring that an end to the paralysing disease is achievable, and endorsing…

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Ghana’s Immunization Story Attracts Gates

Philanthropist,billionaire and co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation has arrived in Ghana to observe the nations’ health care delivery especially successes chalked so far in the area of…

A polio vaccination worker badly injured in Peshawar is taken to hospital on 19 December 2012.(pic credit theGuardian.com)

Polio vaccination volunteers killed in Pakistan

Five members of Pakistan’s nationwide polio immunisation campaign have been shot dead by unknown assailants in four separate incidents across the country on Tuesday. Three of the attacks took place…

the trained volunteers are providing sensitization and social mobilization services on the vaccination campaign and supporting the vaccination on crowd control

Volunteers trained to assist in Meningitis vaccination

The Swiss Red Cross in partnership with the Ghana Red Cross Society have trained 300 Red Cross volunteers in the Upper East Region to complement the efforts of the Ghana…

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New model for Genital Herpes vaccination

A new model for the vaccination against genital herpes, a disease for which there has been no cure and no effective immunization have developed. The model developed by the Yale…