Global vaccine experts and officials from all 26 African "meningitis belt" countries have convened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to celebrate one of Africa's biggest public health achievements—the ...

Global vaccine experts and officials from all 26 African 'meningitis belt' countries have convened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to celebrate one of Africa's biggest public health achievements -- the ...

Global vaccine experts and officials from all 26 African 'meningitis belt' countries have convened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to celebrate one of Africa's biggest public health achievements -- the ...

A cheap new vaccine against bacterial meningitis is the first ever designed for use in Africa. Before now, vaccines and most other medicines have been developed for wealthy markets and retrofitted ...

The African meningitis belt is a region of 26 countries in sub-Saharan Africa where the rate of incidence of meningitis is very high.

Case numbers in Africa's meningitis season this year were the lowest in 10 years thanks to a cheap new vaccine designed to treat a type of the disease common in the so-called meningitis belt, the ...

The bacterium neisseria meningitidis is responsible for annual outbreaks of meningitis that put millions at risk along Africa's "Meningitis belt." Six types of bacteria cause epidemics, but one ...

Meningococcal A meningitis, affected 26 countries in Africa for over a century, killing and disabling young people every year, but the vaccine became a boon.

The so-called "meningitis belt" in sub-Saharan Africa, which has the highest rates of the disease in the world, stretches from Senegal in the west to Ethiopia in the east.

JOHANNESBURG For over a century, epidemics of bacterial meningitis have swept across Africa, arriving with the dry harmattan winds to kill with terrifying speed. But on Monday, a drive starts to ...

The bacterium neisseria meningitidis is responsible for annual outbreaks of meningitis that put millions at risk along Africa's "Meningitis belt." Six types of bacteria cause epidemics, but one ...