ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is one of the countries with the highest number of ‘zero-dose’ children who have not received routine immunisation. But it is the only country among.
This month, Ghana and Nigeria became the first two countries to approve the use of R21, a vaccine that may have game-changing effectiveness in protecting people from malaria. The emergence of effective vaccines promises a new golden age of success in the fight against malaria, just as such efforts had appeared to slow and even reverse. However, such promise must be neither squandered nor overplayed. A deficiency of timely, policy-relevant evidence hampered decision-making about the world’s first malaria vaccine RTS,S and cheap and highly-effective technologies, such as insecticide-treated bed nets, have still not reached full coverage.
On Tuesday, TT received 1,400 doses of the World Health Organization (WHO)-approved “mpox” vaccines, the first of two shipments via the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) vaccine acquisition platform.
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