Thanks to a recent court ruling, 600 000 physicians have been given the right to sue some of
the nation's largest HMOs for fraud and racketeering. The ruling allows the doctors, who are …

Africa's meningitis A vaccine: how partnership replaced 'Big Pharma' Page 1 Health matters 10
Appropriate Technology, Vol 43, No 1. www.appropriate-technology.com If it hadn’t been for an …

The vaccine could represent significant progress in the battle against the disease which
suffered a setback last year with the emergence of the strain W135. The strain exploded in …

An affordable vaccine could help stop the meningitis epidemic that affects Africa every year
and killed 25,000 people in 1997. The Serum Institute of India is manufacturing the vaccine …

This year's meningitis season is almost over, and there have been only four confirmed cases
of meningitis A in Burkina Faso, the first country to offer the shot to all citizens under 30 …

Background. Polysaccharide vaccines had been used to control African meningitis
epidemics for> 30 years but with little or modest success, largely because of logistical …

On 8 June 2007, the Meningitis Vaccine Project (MVP) released new data on the
performance of a meningitis vaccine in West African children, suggesting that the new …

A new affordable vaccine against Group A meningococcus, the most common cause of large
and often fatal African epidemics of meningitis, was introduced in Burkina Faso, Mali, and …

Nigeria and Niger are reeling from one of the worst meningococcal meningitis epidemics in
years. Already, the epidemic has sickened at least 25,000 people, more than 17,000 in …

The World Health Organisation (WHO) last week issued an urgent plea to drugmakers to
make an effective vaccine available at reduced cost to avoid the resurgence of a rare strain …