WHO launches new drive for malaria vaccine by 2015
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The World Health Organization launched a new global effort on Monday to find a vaccine against malaria, which infects up to 500 million people each year, and the donors to pay for it.
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KANO, Nigeria  - Political leaders and health  workers launched a drive Saturday to immunize more than 80  million children against polio in 23 African nations and fight  back against a resurgence of the crippling disease.
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Prospects for a malaria vaccine have been boosted by âtantalisingâ results from a trial in 2000 children in Mozambique. Although the vaccine reduced the risk of infection by only 30% compared with a control
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Political leaders and health workers launched a drive Saturday to immunise more than 80 million children against polio in 23 African nations and fight back against a resurgence of the crippling disease.
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The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) has made a pitch for an early rollout of a new vaccine for cervical cancer, saying the formula could save the lives of hundreds of thousands of women in poor countries.
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British finance minister Gordon Brown will propose Wednesday giving &#36;1.8 billion over the next 15 years to a campaign to get life-saving vaccines to millions of children in poor countries.
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An international fund said on Wednesday it had greatly expanded malaria prevention and treatment efforts this year that have helped beat back the disease in pockets of Africa, but much more needs to be done.
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LONDON - Scientists have made important progress in the quest for a malaria vaccine, showing for the first time that childhood shots can prevent nearly one-third of cases and slash the risk of severe, life-threatening attacks by almost two-thirds.    Experts say the findings, outlined this week in The Lancet medical journal, provide robust evidence that the dream of developing a vaccine that will get babies through the most vulnerable period of infancy could become a reality by the end of the decade...
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The World Health Organization (WHO) on  Thursday pressed drug makers to accelerate work on a vaccine  against a dreaded influenza pandemic which could kill millions  of people.
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The Manhica Health Research Centre in Mozambique has high hopes that a new malaria vaccine could save many lives in future. This comes after the centre, one of the smaller health research centres in the world
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A new, low-cost drug is launched to combat malaria, aimed at children in sub-Saharan Africa.
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A pioneering vaccine can protect a  significant proportion of African children against malaria,  scientists said on Thursday, boosting hopes that the  mosquito-borne disease may one day be conquered.
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International health experts called on Tuesday for rapid worldwide access to promising but expensive cervical cancer vaccines that have the potential to save a quarter of a million lives a year.
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The first effective malaria vaccine promises to save millions of lives. Scientists were jubilant last Thursday when results of the trial involving children between one and four years in southern Mozambique
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Scientists say they have developed an effective vaccine against malaria that could be ready for use in six years.
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Indonesia will resume sharing bird flu samples with the World Health Organization (WHO), but under a new mechanism aimed at ensuring developing nations get access to vaccines, the health minister and the WHO said on Friday.
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There is progress toward a vaccine to prevent malaria. Researchers have been testing an experimental vaccine in Mozambique. This is what they have found: In a group of one thousand six hundred