Each year, the World Health Organization (WHO) partakes in World Immunization Week, a period of reflection, raising awareness, and future planning surrounding global action required to combat ...

Immunization is one of the most effective health interventions we can make. Every year vaccination programmes save millions of lives. They have helped eradicate diseases like smallpox – a deadly virus ...

The U.S. childhood immunization schedule, the grid of colored bars pediatricians share with parents, recommends a set of vaccines given from birth through adolescence to prevent a range of serious ...

North Korea has maintained a near-total closure of its international borders for the past two years, effectively halting economic activities and trade with other nations. While the economic ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Five months after taking over the federal agency responsible ...

Routine immunization programs can serve as a critical platform for a nation’s global health security strategy, both because they help prevent disease outbreaks and because they have the potential to ...

The decades-long effort to ensure equitable global access to vaccines is under threat. Between 2020 and 2021, the Covid-19 pandemic sparked the most significant decrease in immunization coverage rates ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The multinational program has delivered 2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines to 146 nations and saved 2.7 ...

This article is part of “Innovations In: Solutions for Health Equity,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Takeda Pharmaceuticals. Once a week, ...

If the government wants to expand U.S. manufacturing, it must invest in the already booming vaccine industry. The push to ...

Dramatic changes to the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program risk driving drugmakers from the market, threatening access to shots. This article was published on Thursday, July 17, 2025 in ProPublica.