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The GAVI Alliance, a public - private partnership that spends around $ 300 million annually on vaccination programmes in poor countries, is considering funding HPV shots.

Vaccination programmes in these and other countries where polio remains have been stepped up in 2001.

Not exact matches

The vast majority of badgers killed in both pilot culls were by government employed trap teams, with higher costs than the Welsh government vaccination programme.

Governor Ikpeazu said Council applauded the support the stakeholders and encouraged state government to go to their states and encourage the immunization programme by paying counterpart funding and taking ownerships of the programme in their respective states as a way to stamp out all the diseases that could be reduced or removed completely from the country by vaccination.

The Department encourages parents to exercise their responsibility to participate in important public health programmes such as MMR vaccination.

Health workers in Nigeria on Wednesday began a mass vaccination programme to try to halt a mass outbreak of meningitis that has killed nearly 340 people since late last year.

But Tina Sacco, a farmer in Pembrokeshire, did not support the cull and believes a vaccination programme would be a better option.

Doctors work in rehabilitation of hospitals and dispensaries, vaccination programmes, and water and sanitation projects.

Vaccination programmes begin in the US and Europe, but many healthcare workers are reluctant to have the vaccine, even though it is virtually identical to the seasonal vaccines used in previous years, which have a good safety record.

Vaccination programmes are established in some countries including the US, Australia, Greece, Germany, Japan and Taiwan.

«A three - quarters drop in measles deaths worldwide shows just how effective well - run vaccination programmes can be,» said WHO Director - General Margaret Chan in a press release.

In 2012, the UK Department of Health therefore recommended annual vaccination of those aged 2 - 16 years of age with live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) as part of the NHS childhood vaccination programme.

Vaccinating older individuals is problematic, as the effectiveness of most vaccines decrease with age, with maximal responses often as low as 30 % in the over 70s.5 Nevertheless, vaccination programmes demonstrate the ability to reduce disease burden in the elderly as well as offering a tool to observe immune responses in vivo in humans.

These frequencies were maintained following substantial alterations in lineage prevalences once vaccination programmes began.

Gerhold and Jessup (and ABC) go on to argue that «human exposure to rabies is largely associated with free - roaming cats because of people being more likely to come in contact with cats, large free - roaming cat populations, and lack of stringent rabies vaccination programmes.»

Anyone who cares for his or her cat will want to protect it in this way and vaccination is a critical part of a proper preventive healthcare programme.

Affected cats can be treated successfully with appropriate antibiotics, but vaccination may be helpful in some circumstances as part of a control programme in an infected household