How To Soothe a Child or a Crying Adult During Vaccination

                                           

When people ensure that their families and communities are protected with vaccines, we are all protected together. #VaccinesWork.
 According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Immunization saves 2-3 million lives every year yet, globally, 19 million children are still missing out on basic vaccines.

Here are ways to soothe a child or a crying adult during vaccination: 

Alert! Shortage Of Vaccine For Meningitis C In NIgeria

                  

International health officials are scrambling to find meningitis C vaccines as an outbreak of the child-killing disease threatens to balloon.

The first large-scale outbreak of the C strain in decades has already killed 800 of 12,000 people infected this year in Nigeria and neighboring Niger.

Vaccine Therapy For Malaria?

                   

The days of malaria, one of Africa's main health challenges - and equally that of swathes of South and Central America and other tropical environments across the world - appears to be gradually coming to an end with the recent approval, for use, of the malaria vaccine, Mosquirix, which had undergone development and generally successful trials, in the past 28 years.