Vaccination News

WASHINGTON — Vaccine adherence was increasing among children in the United States in the years before the COVID-19 pandemic, but rates differed by socioeconomic status, researchers reported at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting.

WASHINGTON — Experts at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting suggested reframing conversations about HPV to encourage parents to get children vaccinated starting at age 9 years.

WHO announced that it is partnering with other global health groups on a campaign called “The Big Catch-Up” to promote childhood vaccination amid a decline in routine immunizations in more than 100 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic.

An FDA advisory committee voted to recommend the approval of sulbactam-durlobactam for adults with bacterial pneumonia after reviewing data from a two-part phase 3 trial that compared its safety and efficacy with colistin.

“Network immunity” may have helped halt the global mpox outbreak, according to a study presented at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases.

HHS announced a $1.1 billion program to keep COVID-19 vaccines and treatments free for uninsured people once the public health and national emergencies end next month in the United States.

Mutations have allowed SARS-CoV-2 to evade previously effective treatments and preventives that have become a crucial tool for reducing severe COVID-19 and have made treating outpatients with COVID-19 more complicated.

Bivalent messenger RNA booster vaccinations were effective for preventing COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths in older adults, according to data presented at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases.

The FDA on Tuesday authorized a second bivalent COVID-19 vaccine booster shot for adults aged 65 years or older and most immunocompromised patients, among other changes the agency said will simplify the U.S. vaccine schedule.

It has been more than 40 years since HIV emerged, causing a pandemic that has left more than 40 million people dead and more than 38 million currently living with the infection worldwide.