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 ...

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 ...

Africa's Meningitis Belt Gets First Vaccine Designed For Poor Nations : Shots - Health News A cheap new vaccine against bacterial meningitis is the first ever designed for use in Africa.

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 ...

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.

Meningitis outbreaks take place each year along Africa's 'Meningitis belt' A vaccine against Meningitis A was introduced in many countries along the belt in 2010. Within five years, ...

The African meningitis belt is a region of 26 countries in sub-Saharan Africa where the rate of incidence of meningitis is very high. It includes Mali, where this study was conducted, and extends ...

So far, donors and African countries have raised $95 million of the estimated $570 million cost of eliminating meningitis epidemics across Africa, W.H.O. officials say.

The website of a global partnership formed to wipe out deadly meningitis epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa is closing down with a simple message: "Thank you and goodbye!" Barely five years after the ...

More than 12 million people in Burkino Faso will be the first to receive a new meningitis vaccine as part of an Africa-wide immunization plan, the World Health Organisation said on Monday.