Live-attenuated vaccines:Live-attenuated basically means alive, but very weak. These vaccines are made when thevirusis weakened to such a level that it reproduces only about 20 times in the body. By comparison, natural viruses reproduce thousands of times. When the vaccine is made, the virus ...
Live-attenuated vaccines:Live-attenuated basically means alive, but very weak. These vaccines are made when thevirusis weakened to such a level that it reproduces only about 20 times in the body. By comparison, natural viruses reproduce thousands of times. When the vaccine is made, the virus ...
By 2022, the Government of Indonesia had successfully eliminated malaria in 389 out of 514 districts but continues to face a challenge in Eastern Indonesia where 95% of the total 2021 malaria cases were reported from Papua, West Papua and Nusa Tenggara Timur provinces. There is an increased rec...
It is estimated that the worldwide age-standardized prevalence of current HPV infection is 10.5% (95% CI 9.9–11.0) of women; the prevalence varies about 20-fold between different regions, from 1.4% (95% CI 0.5–2.2) in Spain to 25.6% (95% CI 22.4–28.8) in Nigeria3. More than 100...
“The lockdown did not help much in terms of reducing transmission, but it bought us time,” says Bhramar Mukherjee, professor of biostatistics at the University of Michigan. Yet, in the absence of robust public health infrastructure, including testing capacity, the epidemic slipped out of contr...
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In Zambia, the implementation of performance-based financing schemes resulted in a significant increase in job satisfaction and a decrease in attrition [31]. A study in Nigeria also revealed that PBIs helped to motivate health workers for better work performance [32]. A study on the impact of ...
In fact, evidence to date suggests that herd immunity is likely not a realistic option. For example, the country of Sweden opted to shun social restrictions adopted by much of the rest of the world in favor of offering optional guidelines to citizens and relying on herd immunity. Initial repo...
In fact, evidence to date suggests that herd immunity is likely not a realistic option. For example, the country of Sweden opted to shun social restrictions adopted by much of the rest of the world in favor of offering optional guidelines to citizens and relying on herd immunity. Initial repo...