(HealthDay)—A $5.1 billion plan to eradicate polio worldwide by 2026 was announced this week by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, a public-private partnership led by national governments and health groups.
Jun 11, 2021
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In 2019, before COVID-19, the World Health Organization (WHO) identified vaccine hesitancy as one of the top ten greatest threats to global health.
Jun 8, 2021
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The COVID-19 pandemic and the distribution of the vaccines that will prevent it have surfaced haunting memories for Americans who lived through an earlier time when the country was swept by a virus that, for so long, appeared ...
Jun 7, 2021
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As India urgently scales up its vaccination campaign for the COVID-19 virus, a new study which examined the country's successful program to eliminate polio provides guidance on how this and future mass immunization campaigns ...
May 6, 2021
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Africa is on the "sidelines" of the worldwide vaccination drive against COVID-19, with only two percent of the global total to have received jabs, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday, citing supply, funding ...
Apr 8, 2021
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(HealthDay)—When New York City was the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic last spring in the United States, nearby Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital was treating more than 400 COVID-19 patients at one time, remembers ...
Feb 16, 2021
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Launched in 1988, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) stands out as one of the largest, internationally coordinated global public health major projects conducted to date, with cumulative spending of over $16.5 ...
Feb 16, 2021
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I nervously fell into a long line of fellow first graders in the gymnasium of St. Louis' Hamilton Elementary School in the spring of 1955. We were waiting for our first injection of the new polio vaccine.
Jan 14, 2021
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Despite a steady rise in coronavirus cases, Pakistan on Monday launched a five-day vaccination campaign against polio amid tight security, hoping to eradicate the crippling children's disease this year.
Jan 11, 2021
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If you had tuned into the Ed Sullivan Show on October 28 1956, you would have witnessed an unexpected promoter of public health. Just before he took the stage to gyrate his way through his hit version of "Hound Dog", the ...
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