Tag: Vaccination

• Wednesday, August 6th 2025 - 08:52 UTC

  Children's vaccination stagnating worldwide

  

  A new study supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, recently published in The Lancet, showed childhood vaccination coverage stagnated worldwide and even declined since 2010, which was made worse by the Covid-19 pandemic. The research, which analyzed data from 204 countries between 1980 and 2023, found that while there was sustained growth in vaccination rates during the 1980s and 1990s for diseases like diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, measles, and polio, this progress has now stalled.

• Friday, July 11th 2025 - 19:17 UTC

  Bolivia deploys door-to-door measles vaccination teams

  

  Bolivian authorities, in collaboration with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), launched a door-to-door vaccination campaign this week to curb the measles outbreak, of which so far 98 cases have been confirmed.

• Saturday, May 10th 2025 - 10:28 UTC

  Irregularities found regarding Covid-19 vaccination in Chile

  

  Chile's Comptroller General of the Republic (CGR) spotted significant irregularities in the Health Ministry's Covid-19 vaccination registry for 2022-2023, such as using expired doses, inoculating deceased recipients, and inventory discrepancies.

• Friday, April 25th 2025 - 10:15 UTC

  Global vaccination rates declining

  

  The World Health Organization (WHO) said global vaccination rates were declining, raising concerns about rising preventable diseases like measles (10.3 million cases in 2023, up 20%), meningitis, and yellow fever, driven by misinformation, humanitarian crises, population growth, and budget cuts.

• Friday, May 24th 2024 - 10:45 UTC

  Uruguay: Respiratory diseases on the rise amid low vaccination coverage

  

  Uruguayan physicians reported this week that respiratory infections and emergency room visits for this type of illness are on the rise. In addition, the Health Ministry has expressed concern about the low number of pregnant women who have received the flu vaccine this season.

• Monday, April 24th 2023 - 09:20 UTC

  Chile reports first human case of avian influenza; Uruguay begins vaccination in commercial poultry farms

  

  The Ministry of Health of Chile notified WHO of the detection of human infection with avian influenza A(H5) virus. The patient is a 53-year-old male from the Region of Antofagasta in the north of Chile. He had no history of comorbidities or recent travel.

• Saturday, December 3rd 2022 - 09:11 UTC

  Fifth wave of COVID-19 reported having started in Paraguay

  

  Paraguayan health authorities Friday reported the beginning of the fifth wave of COVID-19 in the country, where 621 new cases have been confirmed.

• Monday, October 24th 2022 - 10:10 UTC

  No more sanitary requirements to enter Paraguay

  

  The government of Paraguay has lifted all sanitary requirements to enter the country, effective Monday, Oct. 24, it was announced.

• Saturday, September 10th 2022 - 10:03 UTC

  Many Brazilian parents no longer vaccinate children against controlled diseases

  

  Brazilian scientists have expressed their concern over a recurrent attitude among parents who have ceased to vaccinate their children against diseases that have been eradicated but which might return without proper care.

• Saturday, June 25th 2022 - 10:01 UTC

  Nearly 20 million lives saved by Covid-19 vaccines, study shows

  

  Scientists from Imperial College London have released a study explaining that COVID-19 vaccines have saved nearly 20 million lives during their first year of existence, although more could have been achieved had international targets been met.