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As cases of cholera rise worldwide, the WHO said on Friday that it has authorized a new, less complicated version of the oral vaccine. This should assist expand the number of doses that are available. With...

Nearly 900,000 doses of the cholera vaccine, procured by UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO), arrived in Beira, Mozambique, on Tuesday afternoon and the vaccination campaign will begin imminently. The vaccines are funded by Gavi,...

More than 306,000 people in Yemen, including over 164,000 children under the age of 15, were given cholera vaccines as part of a joint WHO-UNICEF campaign that concluded on October 5th, 2018. The number is expected...

News Hour: Hilleman Laboratories, a joint-venture partnership between MSD and Wellcome Trust, received a 6 million krona Indo – Swedish grant for the project ‘Improved, affordable single strain whole cell-B subunit oral cholera vaccine’. The proposed...

The first vaccine campaign against cholera in Yemen has started, 18 months after war and a sanitation crisis triggered an epidemic, but the World Health Organization said it did not yet have permission nationwide to do...

One week after Cyclone Freddy made landfall for a second time in Mozambique, creating severe disruption to critical services, the threat of cholera is growing rapidly for children and families. Thanks to preparation efforts by Government,...

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), in coordination with health authorities, the Syria Immunization Group (SIG), and the Global Alliance for Vaccines (GAVI), kicked off a cholera vaccination campaign in...

Dr. Firdausi Qadri, a Bangladeshi scientist, has earned the Ramon Magsaysay Award. Dr. Qadri, an emeritus scientist at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (icddr,b), has been named a laureate of the 2020 L’Oréal-Unesco For...

News Hour: A massive cholera immunization campaign started near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, to protect newly arrived Rohingya and host communities from the life-threatening diarrheal disease. 900 000 doses of the vaccine have been mobilized and are...

News Hour: An ambitious new strategy to reduce deaths from cholera by 90 percent by 2030 will be launched tomorrow by the Global Task Force on Cholera Control (GTFCC), a diverse network of more than 50 UN...