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WHO Highlights Vaccines’ Role in Saving 150 Million Lives

The World Health Organisation (WHO) marks the start of World Immunisation Week, from April 24 to April 30, with a reminder of vaccines’ monumental impact on global public health. Over the past five decades, immunization efforts have prevented an estimated 150 million deaths. This year’s observance also serves as the midpoint for the Immunisation Agenda…

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WHO Raises Alarm Over Vaccine Misinformation

  The World Health Organization has identified rising misinformation and uncertain research funding as critical threats to global vaccine programmes, warning that public trust in immunisation is eroding amid coordinated campaigns spreading false information about vaccine safety. The warning came Wednesday from the WHO’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunisation, which concluded its biannual…

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Nigeria to Start Local Manufacturing of Vaccines —NAFDAC

The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control ( NAFDAC ) has announced that Nigeria would soon start manufacturing its vaccines. Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, the Director-General made this known while speaking during the NAFDAC ’s staff Award Ceremony. She revealed that achieving the ISO 9001in June last year, which is the world’s most recognized…

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