2020年4月9日 · In response, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation (CEPI) was launched at Davos in 2017, a global partnership between public, private, philanthropic, and civil society organizations working to accelerate the development of vaccines against emerging infectious diseases and enable equitable access to these vaccines for affected ...

2022年4月27日 · To mark World Immunization Week, we look back at the history of vaccines. Every minute, eight children’s lives are saved by vaccines, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Previously fatal diseases like smallpox and polio have been virtually eliminated around the world.

2024年11月22日 · Vaccines can have a transformative effect on global health. They have been in development for 228 years, with the first successful dose administered by Dr Edward Jenner to protect against smallpox in 1796. Since then, the rate of research into vaccinations for many diseases affecting people all over the world has soared.

2020年6月2日 · Humanitarian medical organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) says the high cost of vaccines and problems delivering and storing them prevent people from being immunized. Collapsed public health systems in conflict zones not only prevent vaccination but can stop people being treated when diseases reappear.

2017年9月11日 · Vaccines have the potential to be used to treat as well as prevent infectious and noninfectious diseases. In the future this kind of therapeutic usage is expected to become more common. Meanwhile, technologies are being developed that will improve the simplicity and effectiveness of vaccine delivery and have the potential to remove the need for ...

2020年12月9日 · In Australia, uptake for influenza vaccines has been relatively low among the country’s First Peoples. One study published earlier this year suggested that “a lack of cultural safety” may be a related barrier, given that First Peoples feel discriminated against in healthcare settings – and noted that COVID-19 made the need for higher vaccine coverage more urgent.

2021年7月1日 · In theory, the underlying technology behind mRNA vaccines is adaptable, allowing for quick updates as new viral mutations (variants) evolve or whole new viruses are discovered. Since mRNA vaccines are based on sequences of viral proteins, making a new vaccine could simply involve changing the mRNA sequence if you know what protein you want …

2022年9月20日 · Many vaccines were designed since using different components of the parasite and tested in clinical trials, including RTS,S which became the first licensed anti-malaria vaccine. It contains part of a major protein found on the surface of the parasite that starts the infection: the so-called sporozoite stage (see graphic below) that infects the ...

2023年5月11日 · A vaccination against malaria currently in trials holds the same hope. The ability to react quickly and develop a vaccine for a new pathogen has sped up significantly in the past decade. Technological advances have led to faster, cheaper and easier mass production of vaccines, such as the RNA vaccines against COVID-19.

2021年6月8日 · The composition of the vaccines themselves are another part of the challenge. Clift said that some COVID-19 vaccines require 280 separate inputs: “These range from the biological materials to grow the vaccine through a wide range of technical kit necessary for production to the vials that contain the finished product.”