Intensive vaccination campaigns have reduced the number of new polio cases reported worldwide to fewer than two thousand a year.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

These include vaccination campaigns and the use of bed nets chemically treated to kill mosquitoes that spread malaria.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

And they now call the delivery agent who can now come and meet them at a particular place and do the vaccination for them."

VOA: special.2009.11.03

Officials say similar vaccination campaigns are planned this year in India, Nigeria and Pakistan.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

"Vaccination,which we tend to take for granted in countries like the United States or in Western Europe, in fact a lot of us don't even know which diseases we've been vaccinated against.

VOA: special.2010.03.29

Vaccination is a life or death question for poor people and if you can vaccinate a child to prevent a disease from happening it is a lot more cost effective than it is to treat that disease afterwards."

VOA: special.2010.03.29

To get at these non-mutating parts of the virus, Nabel and his colleagues used a two-step vaccination process, called "prime-boost."

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

And they claim the need for a vaccination is not so great to afford these risks."

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

In the realm of prevention, he says vaccination is the most important intervention against diseases that cause pneumonia, such as whooping cough and measles.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

"This is having an impact on their health. It is also reducing our ability to bring other kinds of assistance, such as vaccination campaigns against polio,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.07

Demand drew scores of people to vaccination clinics in the U.S.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

Cox says the best step to protection is vaccination.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

Newborns need a vaccination within the first day of life to prevent transmission of the virus from their mothers, and babies need two more doses within the first six months for full immunity.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

"Civil Society plays a key role in helping to communicate the need for mothers to bring their children in early for vaccines to complete the vaccination series to make sure that non-governmental organizations deliver and offer vaccines not only one day a week necessarily but on a regular basis,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

"These targets are set for 2015 and are to achieve at least 90 percent measles vaccination coverage nationally and 80 percent coverage in every district, reduce measles cases to less than five per million population, reduce measles mortality by U.N.health agencies have made huge strides in reducing the number of children dying from measles.

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

and also intensify vaccination against all infectious agents, all viruses that are known to be strongly associated with the development of cancer. The government should increase its efforts to prevent illnesses with links to cancer, he says,such as hepatitis, a disease of the liver, and the human papillomavirus, which is transmitted during intercourse and is linked to cervical cancer.

VOA: standard.2010.06.16