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COVID disrupted measles vaccinations in Africa and now cases are surging

Clutching an umbrella, medical records and her two-year-old daughter, Kani Fall negotiated the brown puddles lapping at the hospital gate, the final hurdle in a two-hour, rain-soaked journey to her nearest vaccination clinic in western Gambia.

Reuters

Moderna Signs Deal on Variant-Adapted COVID Shots for World’s Poorest

Moderna Inc has agreed to provide its new variant-adapted COVID-19 vaccine to the global scheme aiming to deliver shots to the world's poorest people. The biotech company and vaccine alliance GAVI will cancel their existing supply deal for vaccines based on the original coronavirus strain. Instead, Moderna will supply up…

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Moderna agrees to supply variant-specific Covid jabs to low income countries

To ensure low- and middle-income countries have access to updated variant-specific Covid-19 vaccines, Gavi and Moderna has agreed to create new framework enabling Gavi to purchase up to 100 million doses in 2023

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Dismay as key cholera vaccine is discontinued

Exclusive: halt to production of Shanchol vaccine alarms WHO amid ‘unprecedented’ global outbreaks

The Guardian - UK

Opinion | Unprepared for the Big One

Global leaders have yet to craft and finance a plan for deploying vaccines globally when the next pandemic hits.

Politico

GAVI financing to allow for immediate funds for next pandemic

Global vaccine alliance GAVI has set up financial instruments that will allow the group to immediately access pledged donor funding if it needs to buy vaccines for future pandemics, Chief Executive Seth Berkley told Reuters.

Reuters

Deadly childhood diseases rise in Ethiopia's Tigray as war hampers vaccinations

Deadly diseases such as measles, tetanus and whooping cough are on the rise in Ethiopia's Tigray region after vaccination rates plunged during the civil war that broke out nearly two years ago, doctors and regional health officials say.

Reuters

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Opinion | Ron DeSantis, Republican Stuntman

He’s happy to ship migrants to Martha’s Vineyard if he thinks he can own the libs.

Politico

White House says Republican governors shipping migrants to other states is ‘reckless,’ ‘shameful’

Two busloads of migrants were dropped off near Vice President Kamala Harris’ home outside the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., on Thursday morning.

Politico

Pelosi going to Armenia amid renewed clashes with Azerbaijan

The speaker's trip aims to demonstrate support for Yerevan in a spiraling conflict.

Politico

Trump’s Save America paid $3 million to cover top lawyer’s legal work

Chris Kise is repping the ex-president in the Mar-a-Lago investigation and the DOJ Jan. 6 probe. And it’s costing Trump’s key fundraising arm.

Politico

Opinion | In Defense of Lindsey Graham

If the Republican Party can’t rally around a 15-week abortion ban, it’s in real trouble.

Politico

6 charts that show how money and influence shaped the world's Covid plan

Four leading health organizations played a major part in envisioning and founding critical programs to develop, secure and distribute Covid tests, vaccines and treatments.

Politico

How Bill Gates and partners used their clout to control the global Covid response — with little oversight

Four health organizations, working closely together, spent almost $10 billion on responding to Covid across the world. But they lacked the scrutiny of governments, and fell short of their own goals, a POLITICO and WELT investigation found.

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Behind the numbers: How we analyzed Gates' and partners' global influence

A team of journalists looked at how much four health organizations collectively raised, granted and invested for Covid and in preparation for the next pandemic.

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North Korea declares itself a nuclear weapons state

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country will never abandon the nuclear weapons it needs to counter the United States, which he accused of pushing to weaken the North's defenses.

Evening Standard

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Everything you need to know about rotavirus

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How Rwanda could become one of the first countries to wipe out cervical cancer

With a strong HPV vaccination programme for girls and a concerted screening and treatment drive for women, the country could be the first in Africa to eliminate the disease

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Reuters

Exclusive-Rotavirus childhood vaccine shortage hits four African countries

Supplies of a vaccine to prevent the deadly rotavirus infection in children have either run out in Kenya, Tanzania, Senegal and Cameroon or are close to doing so, officials close to the roll-out told Reuters, after disruptions at drugmaker GSK.

The Independent UK

WHO moves to roll out first malaria vaccine in Africa

As the World Health Organization announces the next step in its rollout of the world’s first authorized malaria vaccine in three African countries, concerns about its value have come from an unlikely source: the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, arguably the vaccine’s biggest backer

Politico

To fight inequity, Africa wants to produce its own vaccines. First, it needs to find buyers.

Governments on the continent and international donors must be ready to pay higher prices for African-made shots, experts and pharma industry representatives said.

The Telegraph

Routine immunisation is the best shot at a healthy future for ‘zero-dose’ children

Children without a single immunisation account for half of all vaccine-preventable deaths

Daily Mirror

Horror virus that leaves 'ghost like' sufferers bleeding from nose and gums kills two

The global vaccine charity Gavi flagged Marburg last year as one of the viruses that could potentially spark the next global pandemic, as its long incubation time means it can quickly spread

Reuters

COVID-19 vaccine scheme for world's poorest pushes for delivery slowdown

Leaders of the global scheme aiming to get COVID-19 vaccines to the world's poorest are pushing manufacturers including Pfizer and Moderna to cut or slow deliveries of about half a billion shots so doses are not wasted.

Politico

Africa finally has enough Covid shots. Is it too little, too late?

When friends and family got sick last year, people across Ghana scrambled to get shots. But there weren’t enough. Now, many say they don’t want the jab. Local volunteers are struggling to change their minds.

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