Medical experts repeatedly reiterate how vital vaccinations are to global health. As of last spring, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that worldwide immunization efforts have saved at ...

Immunization is one of the most effective health interventions we can make. Every year vaccination programmes save millions of lives. They have helped eradicate diseases like smallpox – a deadly virus ...

Vaccination campaigns have nearly eradicated some of the most deadly and transmissible diseases. However, against a backdrop of a rising tide of vaccine hesitancy, and U.S. leaders pulling global ...

1. What do vaccines do? -- 2. Technologies : the first vaccines -- 3. Technologies : viral challenges -- 4. Technologies : the commodification of vaccines -- 5. Policies : hesitant beginnings -- 6.

Immunization schedules work because they are grounded in evidence, continually reviewed, and adapted to the epidemiology and health system in which they operate. Recently, public health agencies have ...