Global introduction of pneumococcal vaccines
From Kenya and Honduras to Guyana and Yemen, the first GAVI-eligible countries are introducing pneumococcal vaccines to their national immunisation programmes in 2010 and 2011.
KENYA
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Kenya President Mwai Kibaki joins parents, health workers, ambassadors and donors in Nairobi to witness children being immunised as part of the introduction of pneumococcal vaccine into the national routine immunisation programme. Read more...
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
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On 4 April, the first Congolese child was immunised as part of the official introduction of pneumococcal vaccine into the national routine immunisation programme. Read more...
YEMEN
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With the help of approximately US$60 million of GAVI support, Yemen has the first infants in the Eastern Mediterranean region to be given vaccines against the leading cause of pneumonia as part of their country's routine immunisation programme. Read more...
GUYANA
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The Government of Guyana was one of the first to introduce the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) in 2009. In January 2011, the PCV13 vaccine was introduced, providing wider coverage against strains of pneumococcal bacteria. Read more...
NICARAGUA
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International leaders in global health joined the Nicaraguan government and hundreds of parents and children to celebrate the rollout of the new pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in the developing world less than a year after it was introduced in rich countries. Read more...
SIERRA LEONE
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Sierra Leone's First Lady Mrs Sia Nyama Koroma launched the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine13 (PCV13) in Bo, Southern Sierra Leone on 28 January 2011. Read more... (WHO report)
See also
Global pneumococcal vaccine roll-out
- View all videos from our 'Global introduction of pneumococcal vaccines' album
- Kenya's pneumococcal vaccine rollout: in pictures
- Honduras tackles leading killer of children, 5 April 2011
- DR Congo introduces new vaccine against one of its leading causes of child death, 4 April 2011
- Kenya marks the global roll out of pneumococcal vaccine against the world's leading cause of child death, 14 February 2011
- Full marks for Kenya's pneumococcal vaccine roll-out, 11 February 2011
- News blog: Introduction of pneumococcal vaccine in Yemen, 29 January 2011
- Yemen's introduction of pneumococcal vaccines: in pictures
- Guyana Health Ministy launches new PCV 13 vaccine, 19 January 2011
- Introduction of pneumococcal vaccine in Nicaragua, 12 December 2010
- The Miracle of Vaccines, 28 January 2011- Melinda Gates report from her visit to Kenya during the pneumococcal vaccine roll-out
Related dowloads
- Kenya: pneumonia and pneumococcal disease factsheet (PDF - 590K) | Français (PDF - 590K)
- All-Party Parliamentary Group report on Pneumococcal Disease Prevention in the Developing World (PDF)
- The Pneumococcal Vaccine Investment Case (PPT)
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