The Ebola epidemic in West Africa has caused substantial morbidity and mortality. The
outbreak has also disrupted health care services, including childhood vaccinations, creating a …

Ebola is a highly infectious and often fatal zoonotic disease endemic to West and Central
Africa. Local outbreaks of the disease are common, but the largest recorded Ebola epidemic …

The Ebola outbreak in 2014–2015 devastated the populations, economies and healthcare
systems of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. With this devastation comes the impending …

Setting: All health centres in Macenta District, rural Guinea. Objective: To compare stock-outs
of vaccines, vaccine stock cards and the administration of various childhood vaccines …

Sir, It has been more than a year since the notification of first case of Ebola virus disease in
March 2014 in West-Africa, and even now the public health authorities have not been …

The review is devoted to the analysis of the available literature on the elimination of measles.
The review focuses on the current measles epidemic situation in the African Region (AFR) …

Background: Measles is a highly contagious vaccine-preventable disease and a major cause
of child mortality in developing countries. Elimination of measles is targeted worldwide, but …

Ebola epidemics constitute serious public health emergencies. Multiple vaccines are under
development to prevent these epidemics and avoid the associated morbidity and mortality. …

Background The 2014 west African epidemic of Ebola virus disease posed a major threat to
the health systems of the countries affected. We sought to quantify the consequences of …

Whilst the largely limited health system and funds are already overstretched while responding
to multiple epidemics, ongoing vaccine-preventable diseases (VPD) including polio and …