A shipment of 11,200 doses, donated by the United States of America and facilitated by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, have been shipped to Abuja, Nigeria, with delivery in the country expected today. This follows agreements signed in November by Gavi to facilitate the donation of 305, 000 doses of mpox vaccine to support the global and continental response. On 24 ...

Unitaid and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi), will pilot integrated cervical cancer screening and treatment with human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programs through a new partnership. The initiative will build off Unitaid’s existing cervical cancer screen-and-treat programs in Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria, incorporating vaccination awareness and service delivery with the goal of increasing coverage for both women and girls. Cervical cancer ...

Justin Stebbing, Anglia Ruskin University King Charles’s decision to cut red meat from his diet following his cancer treatment has sparked a frenzy of interest in the potential effect of what we eat on cancer outcomes, and how well people do after they’re diagnosed. While the specific details of the king’s diagnosis and treatment remain private, his dietary adjustments align ...

Wenlong Carl Chen, University of the Witwatersrand A breakthrough study has identified the genetic risk factors that contribute to increased prostate cancer in African men. The study, the largest of its kind, recruited 7,500 men from eastern, southern and west Africa. The study is especially important because African men have a high risk of prostate cancer. Medical scientist Wenlong Carl ...

Andrea Raffin/Shutterstock Charlotte Codina, University of Sheffield Sir Elton John recently revealed on ABC’s Good Morning America that he lost the sight in his right eye after suffering from an eye infection. With poor vision in his left eye too, John said. “It’s been four months now since I haven’t been able to see.” Reassuringly, the most common eye infections, ...

Primrose Freestone, University of Leicester There is a cognitive bias called “the curse of knowledge” (sometimes also called “the curse of expertise”). It happens when you incorrectly assume that everyone knows as much as you do on a given topic. As a clinical microbiologist, I assumed everyone knew that it was a terrible idea to kiss a newborn baby anywhere ...

Antimicrobial use in poultry is threatening the health of consumers in Nigeria. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images Oluwawemimo Adebowale, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta Many livestock farmers treat their animals with antimicrobial medications. These are drugs that target bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites. But using them the wrong way can have unwanted results. Animals are known to develop resistance ...

Being exposed to a diverse array of microbes in childhood helps ‘train’ the immune system. MNStudio/ Shutterstock Samuel J. White, York St John University and Philippe B. Wilson, York St John University With the popularity of CleanTok on social media, we’re constantly being reminded about how dirty everything around us is. But while you might feel you should disinfect every ...

For International Doctor’s Day on 1st October, St. George’s University (SGU) School of Medicine in Grenada, West Indies has provided tips to help medical professionals achieve a good balance between work and personal time. The specialties with favorable work-life balance. In-demand fields like primary care offer more flexible schedules, making it easier for doctors to juggle personal and professional responsibilities. ...

Four global health innovators, from a pool of over 100 applicants, have been chosen as the 2024 Gavi Innovation for Uptake, Scale and Equity in Immunisation (INFUSE) Pacesetters. The winners – Atlas AI from the USA, Causal Foundry from Spain, Figorr from Nigeria and Signalytic from Uganda – were selected from a shortlist of ten finalists by a panel of global health, technology and private sector experts after a ...