Cervical cancer: NHS pledge to eradicate disease by 2040 can be achieved – here’s how: Around 80% of teenagers in England already receive the HPV vaccine. Prostock-studio/ Shutterstock The NHS has pledged to eliminate cervical cancer in England by 2040. This will be achieved by amping up current vaccination and screening programmes. While this goal …
‘We could eradicate malaria by 2040’ says expert after revolutionary vaccine is approved by WHO: The World Health Organization has approved a new vaccine that scientists argue will be a game-changer in the fight against malaria, which kills half a million people in Africa every year. Trials have shown that the R21/Matrix vaccine, developed by …
Melting glaciers in the Alps will eradicate some invertebrates that are crucial for alpine ecosystems – new research: A glacier-fed river from the Odenwinkelkees glacier, Austria. Jonathan Carrivick, CC BY-NC-ND Glaciers across the European Alps are melting at an alarming rate. Between 2000 and 2014, glaciers in the region thinned by up to 0.9 metres …
Despite the Taliban’s pledge to eradicate opium, the poppy trade still flourishes in Afghanistan: The Taliban have always had a complicated relationship with the opium trade. As a narcotic, opium is haram, or forbidden under Islamic law. But at the same time opium production has tended to increase in areas they have controlled, where local …
Vaccines alone aren’t enough to eradicate a virus – lessons from history: Dryvax, smallpox vaccine with bifurcated needle. James Gathany Content Providers/CDC Public Health Image Library Smallpox killed countless millions – 300 million people in the 20th century alone – before it was finally declared eradicated on May 8 1980. It was a momentous day, …
Complacency could delay the final push to eradicate polio: A Nigerian child receives a dose of the polio vaccine EPA Great strides have been made in the global effort to eradicate polio. Reported cases of wild poliovirus have decreased by over 99% from an estimated 350,000 cases in 1988 to 33 in 2018. Polio is …
Valuable lessons from Nigeria’s marathon effort to eradicate polio: Innovative efforts have been put in place to reach populations in partially and totally inaccessible parts of Borno state. Wikimedia Commons The theme for World Health Day in 1995 was “Target 2000 — A World Without Polio”. I delivered a lecture titled “Polio Eradication Race: Will …