UNICEF obtains pentavalent vaccine at lowest-ever price
Breakthrough prices have been achieved with six vaccine suppliers who offered to price pentavalent vaccine at an 84 cents a dose average – half the price that the UN children’s agency currently pays. In the More...
Holy Week rituals in the Philippines bring the risk of tetanus
Holy Week is being celebrated throughout the Christian world and in the predominately-Catholic Philippines; this week is taken very seriously, so much so that the practice of self-flagellation and crucifixion is More...
Tetanus vaccination campaign kicks off in Haiti
In an effort to protect 1.2 million women of childbearing age and more than 240,000 babies born each year from tetanus and neonatal tetanus, respectively, Haiti today kicked off a new campaign to vaccinate women More...
