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On the 26th October 2021, “Vaccines in Africa from Africa” will take a deep-dive look at the continent’s capacity for developing and manufacturing vaccines.
On the 26th October 2021, “Vaccines in Africa from Africa” will take a deep-dive look at the continent’s capacity for developing and manufacturing vaccines.
Drop in child vaccinations a danger
South Africa needs to drastically improve its data capturing, surveillance and monitoring of immunisation for children under the age of five to prevent outbreaks of measles and whooping cough against which they are underprotected.
This emerged last week from interviews with some of the country’s top paediatricians, virologists and public health specialists.
They were speaking after the health department said during Global Immunisation Week that its child hexavalent and measles inoculation doses fall below acceptable targets for maximum effect. The hexavalent vaccine protects children against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), poliomyelitis, Haemophilus influenza type B and hepatitis B.