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. The vaccine ...

École des hautes études en santé publique (EHESP) provides funding as a member of The Conversation FR. A number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa – including Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, ...

Dr. Samba O. Sow, Director General of CVD-Mali, has led efforts to eradicate meningococcal disease in the African Meningitis Belt for more than a decade. University of Maryland School of Medicine ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A pentavalent vaccine against meningitis continued to show promise in a phase 3 trial in Africa’s meningitis ...

Background.The MenAfriNet consortium was established in 2014 to support implementation of case-based meningitis surveillance in 5 countries in the meningitis belt of sub-Saharan Africa: Burkina Faso, ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A phase 3 trial found that a new meningococcal disease vaccine is ...

LONDON, Jan 9 (Reuters) - 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!".

DAKAR (Reuters) - Meningitis has killed more than 2,500 people this year in West and Central Africa in what could become the worst epidemic for five years, UNICEF said. Meningitis is an infection of ...

The text of this release has been updated. GENEVA (June 8, 2007) – The Meningitis Vaccine Project (MVP) today released new data on the performance of a meningitis vaccine in West African children, ...

LAGOS, Nigeria — International health officials are scrambling, without much success, to find meningitis C vaccines as an outbreak of the child-killing disease threatens to balloon into an epidemic.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian authorities ...