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Vaccine Against AIDs Welcome, But Treatment Is Still A Priority - Says ActionAid

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

News of a successful HIV AIDs vaccine trial is welcome, but treating existing infections and fighting the underlying epidemic of violence against...

VP Njie-Saidy Launches New Vaccine

Picture: VP Isatou Njie Saidy

Thursday, August 20, 2009

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

Gambia Introduces New Vaccine

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

The Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) under the auspices of the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare has introduced a new vaccine, dubbed...

Ward Councillors, Media Practitioners Sensitised on New Vaccine

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

The Health and Education Unit of the Department of State for Health and Social Welfare, in collaboration with the Expanded Programme on Immunisation...

Gambia to Introduce New Vaccine

Tuesday, June 09, 2009

The Gambia will by the end of this month introduce a new vaccine called the pneumococcal vaccine in its immunization system, making it the second...

AFRICA: New meningitis vaccine nears debut

Saturday, March 14, 2009

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...

WEST AFRICA: Meningitis emergency vaccine stock tapped early

Friday, March 06, 2009

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

Synchronized polio campaign kicks off across eight countries in West Africa

Sunday, March 01, 2009

Fifty-three million children under five are expected to be reached across eight West African countries in a coordinated polio immunization campaign...

Man In court for Allegedly Selling False Vaccine

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

One George Smith of Kololi village, who has been charged with the offence of obtaining money by false pretence, on 24th February 2009, had his charge...

WEST AFRICA: Hopes for "re-eradicating" polio

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Health specialists are increasingly optimistic that growing acceptance of the polio vaccine in northern Nigeria offers hope that an upcoming...