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Health Burkina Faso

6. May 2021

This Vaccine May Help Get Rid of Malaria

According to trials on children in Burkina Faso, malaria could be a thing of the past thanks to a highly-effective vaccine that could potentially cut down the death toll enough to envision the eradication of the disease in Africa.

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Health USA

23. April 2021

This Breakthrough Vaccine Fights HIV (and More!)

A laboratory in California, United States managed to develop a vaccine that targets the right immune cells to fight HIV, showing great promise as the first stage of a vaccine strategy in the fight against this deadly virus - and other viral diseases.

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Health Liberia

18. April 2021

Millions of Children Will Soon Be Protected from This Deadly Fever

The typhoid conjugate vaccine becomes the latest introduced in Liberia – the first African country to do so – and authorities are planning to vaccinate millions of children.

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Health USA

27. February 2021

Poorer Countries Are Now Promised Corona Vaccines, Too

The United States has pledged $4 billion to the COVAX initiative dedicated to guarantee equitable access to Corona vaccines for 92 low and middle income governments.

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Society Germany

7. January 2021

He Is Stateless – But This Scientist Can Still Help Find a New Kind of Corona Vaccine

Despite his stateless status, a young scientist of Syrian and Palestine origin has managed to achieve high spheres of study and join a team developing a Corona vaccine in Germany.

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Health Switzerland

31. December 2020

2 Billion Doses of Corona Vaccines Ready for Poorer Countries

In an effort to make sure that all countries in need have access to Coronavirus vaccines, the World Health Organization was able to secure some 2 billion doses of promising vaccine candidates.

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Health USA

20. December 2020

One-Shot Forever: Flu Vaccine That Lasts a Lifetime Is in the Works

A group of American scientists is working on the first universal flu vaccine that could last a lifetime, reducing yearly costs associated with revaccination and better protecting the most vulnerable citizens.

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Health China

7. December 2020

China Will Send Millions of Corona Vaccine Doses to Countries in Africa (They Helped Them Test It)

In the months to come, China intends to send millions of coronavirus vaccine doses to countries where phase 3 trials took place, but also to countries in the developing world as China's leaders stressed that their vaccines are for sharing.

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Heroes USA

25. November 2020

This Woman Leads the Road to the Corona Vaccine (and She Didn’t Take Government Money)

Kathrin Jansen has spent decades of her career thinking outside the box to produce difficult vaccines, and this time is no different: the Pfizer scientist spearheaded the production of a 94% effective vaccine against COVID-19 - using an unproven technology.

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Health USA

28. September 2020

Dramatic Price Drop Gives More People Access to Pneumonia Vaccine

A supply agreement concluded between the United Nations Children’s Fund and the Serum Institute of India will save millions of children under 5 as the price for pneumonia vaccine is down by 43%, costing now $2 per dose.