A major new study has shown that rotavirus vaccination reduced infant diarrhea deaths by one-third in rural Malawi, a region with high levels of child deaths. The study led by scientists at the University of Liverpool, UCL, the International Vaccine Access Center at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and partners in Malawi provides […]
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Through a series of country case studies, this paper reviews the successful use of surveillance data for disease caused by pneumococcus and rotavirus in informing national vaccine policy in Bangladesh, Armenia and The Gambia. The case studies delve into ways in which countries are leveraging and building capacity in existing surveillance infrastructure to monitor other diseases of concern in the country.
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As part of the Decade of Vaccine Economics (DOVE) project’s phase IV, researchers from the International Vaccine Access Center at Johns Hopkins University (IVAC) and Makerere University School of Public Health (MAKSPH) have teamed up to measure cost of illness estimates for pneumonia, diarrhea and measles in children under-five in Uganda and Bangladesh. The study has been implemented in four districts in Uganda (Gulu, Jinja, Mbarara and Wakiso districts) and two divisions in Bangladesh (Sylhet and Rajshahi divisions), from July 2017 to August 2018.
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