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The new Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV7) was yesterday launched at a ceremony held at the Kanifing Municipal Council, making The Gambia to be...

A new vaccine that promises to eliminate meningitis in Africa will be rolled out in a mass campaign in West Africa this year, according to the UN...

 The UN World Health Organization’s meningitis vaccine stockpile programme has already tapped into its inventory, weeks before the worst of the...

Pneumonia and other lung infections are the number-one killers of children worldwide – deadlier than AIDS, malaria and measles combined, but in...

Nigerian health authorities have placed northern states on high alert following a meningitis outbreak in neighbouring Niger, which according to the...

Ten people have been confirmed dead and two are hospitalised following an outbreak of meningitis in north-central Ghana. The disease broke out on 25...

Health ministers from countries of the African meningitis belt today committed themselves to introduce a highly promising candidate meningitis...

People vaccinated against meningitis are supposed to have protection for three years but health officials have announced that meningitis epidemics...