VACCINATION

As the world's biggest buyer and supplier of vaccines, UNICEF is now planning for mass vaccinations to resume following COVID-19 pandemic.

Integrating therapeutic cancer vaccines with traditional drug regimens could invigorate anticancer immunity and improve outcomes in end-stage cervical cancer.

General HPV screening at age 19 showed vaccination of both genders prevented HPV infections much more effectively than vaccination of girls only.

A new hybrid tumour-pathogen therapeutic cancer vaccine takes advantage of pre-existing pathogen-specific immunological memory present in vaccinated individuals.

The research illustrates the significant intermediate and long-term cost of HPV vaccine hesitancy, which WHO has identified as a key health threat.

Preliminary study results have shown a 97.5% vaccine efficacy of the Ervebo Ebola vaccine.

The UK team is one of a handful of research groups in the world currently working to create a viable vaccine against COVID-19.

The vaccination campaign will take place in seven key countries to help tackle global measles surge.

While noting some data limitations, the findings show close concordance in predictions from three independently developed models.

The Alliance was founded 20 years ago to ensure a secure supply of vaccines at affordable prices to developing countries.

Only 51.1% of female US adolescents have completed the HPV vaccine series, while 68.1% have received at least one dose, the researchers noted.

There have been more than 6,000 deaths due to measles in the country since the start of 2019.

The results represent a major step forward in the field of TB vaccine research, the researchers say.

Researchers have demonstrated proof of concept for a microneedle platform capable of invisibly recording vaccination data in the skin.