Global Health

WHO commissions Vaccine Value Profiles for endemic pathogens

WHO commissions Vaccine Value Profiles for endemic pathogens

In what WHO is describing as a “significant stride towards facilitating and informing priorities in global vaccine development” it has commissioned 16 “Vaccine Value Profiles (VVPs)” to be published in Vaccine. This is a result of “collaborations” with pathogen and...

Childhood vaccine refusal study: what is to be done?

Childhood vaccine refusal study: what is to be done?

In a study published in BMC Medical Ethics in November 2023 the authors present a systematic review of normative arguments made about parental refusal of routine vaccination. Describing the topic as an “ethically contested area”, the researchers searched 9 databases...

Vaccines for everyone: study investigates HPV strategies

Vaccines for everyone: study investigates HPV strategies

Research published in Cell Host & Microbe in November 2023 reaches a “somewhat provocative conclusion” that HPV vaccination is so effective that screening protocols might need a review. The paper suggests that “comprehensive human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine...

WHO shares Tuberculosis Report 2023: more effort needed

WHO shares Tuberculosis Report 2023: more effort needed

In November 2023 the WHO shared the Global Tuberculosis Report 2023, a “comprehensive and up-to-date assessment” on the epidemic and progress in preventing, diagnosing, and treating the disease at all levels. The report uses data from national ministries of health,...

EU and Africa CDC share agreement on access and manufacture

EU and Africa CDC share agreement on access and manufacture

In October 2023 at the Global Gateway Forum, held in Brussels, the EU Commission signed €500 million for global health and an additional €134 million to increase local manufacturing and equitable access to quality, safe, effective, and affordable health products in...

MSD Animal Health pursues cattle health success

MSD Animal Health pursues cattle health success

In October 2023 MSD Animal Health announced that the European Medicines Agency Committee for Veterinary Medicinal Products (CVMP) has issued a “positive opinion” for BOVILIS CRYPTIUM. This vaccine is indicated for the “active immunisation of pregnant cows” to protect...

4 vaccine hubs get funding: UK Vaccine Network

4 vaccine hubs get funding: UK Vaccine Network

In November 2023 the UK’s Minister for Health and Secondary Care, Will Quince, announced at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) science, technology, and global health reception that “more than £30 million” will be invested in 4 new “vaccine...