Africa needs regional vaccination campaigns for its children, Wade ...
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DAKAR  - Africa needs to coordinate vaccination campaigns for its children on a regional level, Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade told a conference on immunisation and child health.
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A panel convened by the World Health Organization demanded that there be greater international cooperation and financing to develop a vaccine.
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Southern African countries, the world's region worst affected by AIDS, have been urged to embrace male circumcision to partially prevent the spread of HIV.
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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 new cervical cancer  vaccines that have the potential to save a quarter of a million  lives a year.
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afrol News, 15 October - After field tests on about 1,600 children in Mozambique, scientists and pharmaceutical companies today loudly presented a possible future malaria vaccine to the world press.
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African leaders call for more funds to fight the world's deadliest diseases - Aids, tuberculosis and malaria.
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Niger has opened a national campaign to eradicate measles, a deadly illness that kills at least 500 children a year in the vast northwest African desert state, the health ministry said.
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KANO, Nigeria  - 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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Unicef says there are huge regional differences on child mortality, with sub-Saharan Africa failing to progress.
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Experts push for cervical cancer vaccines to be made available to the developing world.
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Millions of mothers, newborn babies and children die each year in Africa from preventable diseases despite promises of better healthcare by governments and donor countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.
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&quot;Development of an effective vaccine against malaria is feasible&quot;, declare the researchers who have been working on just such a vaccine in the southern Mozambican district of Manhica.
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African television and radio  stations are planning an on-air campaign to build hope in the  face of the AIDS pandemic, in a bid to raise spirits on the  worst-hit continent where millions have died from the disease.
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Nigeria, which accounts for nearly three quarters of polio cases worldwide, is determined to halt the spread of the crippling disease by immunizing all its children, its health minister declared on Thursday.
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Clinical tests of a product candidate to be a vaccine against malaria, the RTS/ASO2A, that were carried out by the Manhica Health Reaserach Centyre, in the southern Mozambican province of Maputo, revealed its efficacy and safety to reduce this disease
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Nations need to develop a model vaccine now for global outbreak, world health agency says. LONDON -- With the right coordination, international commitment and $13 million, scientists could deliver within a