Some 400 million people worldwide lack access to essential health services, and the cost of healthcare is forcing many into poverty, the World Bank and World Health Organization reported Friday.

This report is the first of its kind to measure health service coverage and financial protection to assess countries’ progress towards universal health coverage.

Though measles is a vaccine preventable disease, outbreaks still continue to occur because of poor immunization coverage rate at the national level. The objective of the study was to report the survey results of an outbreak of measles in Puraini village of Madhepura district in Bihar, India.

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This paper explores available evidence, contextualises and maps the debate in India around financing healthcare for all.

GENEVA – Progress towards global vaccination targets for 2015 is far off-track with 1 in 5 children still missing out on routine life-saving immunizations that could avert 1.5 million deaths each year from preventable diseases. In the lead-up to World Immunization Week 2015 (24–30 April), WHO is calling for renewed efforts to get progress back on course.

For years it has remained their sole means of negotiation.

Housemaid Aarti is a proud mother who works in an uptown officers' colony. Oblivious to death that looms over the baby's head, she works hard to raise her child well.

With an aim to vaccinate all partially-vaccinated and unimmunised children by 2020, the government on Monday launched a 15-day media campaign to educate the masses on immunisation, ahead of impleme

Measles cases could almost double in countries hardest hit by the West African Ebola outbreak as overwhelmed health systems are unable to maintain child immunizations, scientists said on Thursday.

Puncturing the government’s ambitious immunization programme to control Japanese Encephalitis (JE), China has refused to supply additional doses of the vaccine to India.

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