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Children in crisis
The global funding crisis is severely limiting UNICEF and the World Health Organisation's ability to vaccinate more than 15 million vulnerable children against measles in fragile and conflict-affected ...
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Aid cuts put children’s lives at risk
Beijing—Children around the world are in crisis. Every day, stories of suffering light up our screens, as emergencies erupt across the globe: children devastated by the conflict in Gaza; children ...
The abrupt firing of 17 vaccine advisers threatens decades of vaccine progress and opens the door to fringe, anti-vaccine ...
Tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees fleeing escalating violence in North Darfur have arrived in eastern Chad since April, overwhelming aid efforts and facing critical shortages of food, water and ...
Inside Sudan, conflict has devastated infrastructure and triggered the breakdown of essential services and infrastructure, fuelling the spread of cholera, measles and other ... Despite the growing ...
The Trump administration’s gutting of global aid is threatening to collapse a network of laboratories responsible for global ...
There’s some thought that the Gaines County measles outbreak might be slowing down. However, we really don’t know how many ...
A Global Early-Warning System at Risk For over 20 years, the GMRLN has helped countries detect and respond to outbreaks of measles and rubella, while also supporting surveillance of other outbreak ...
Herd immunity for measles requires a 95% vaccination rate. Florida’s rate is one of the lowest in the nation. Florida’s pediatricians say that real-time surveillance helps them guide parents ...
New research shows measles vaccination rates for children fell in almost 80 percent of counties across the country after the COVID-19 pandemic.  A Johns Hopkins University study tracked ...