To increase immunisation uptake in Nigeria, paediatricians and public health experts have urged the Federal Government to introduce reward and incentive-based policies to encourage parents to ...

BCG vaccination, which is easy to deliver and ... serious adverse events when given to immunocompromised HIV-infected children. There is less information for adults, probably because BCG is ...

Thousands of children, women and senior citizens in Calbayog, Samar are set to receive various vaccines as part of the Department of Health’s (DOH) efforts during World Immunization Week, which runs ...

The bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine, initially developed to provide protection against TB, also protects against leprosy; and the magnitude of this effect varies. Previous meta-analyses ...