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The International Coordinating Group (ICG) on Vaccine Provision has urged the authorities to address the unprecedented increase in cholera cases worldwide.
Today's recommended actions include investing in safe water, sanitation, and hygiene, improving the quality of and access to healthcare, and detecting and responding to outbreaks quickly.
The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed on March 20, 2024, that the current trends are tragic because cholera is a preventable and treatable disease.

The European Union's Environment, Public Health, and Food Safety Committee recently announced its support for innovative legislation designed to attract pharmaceutical investment, foster innovation, and make medicines more affordable, such as orphan drugs, antimicrobials, and vaccines.
The new reform would provide regulatory data protection to pharma companies for at least seven and a half years, during which competitors would have no access to their product data.

Since its discovery by Louis Pasteur in the 1880s, S. pneumoniae has become the leading global cause of morbidity and mortality across all age groups, with seniors being particularly vulnerable.
Over the years, vaccines have prevented significant diseases, with innovative pneumococcal vaccines on the horizon. 

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced today it issued a Health Alert Network (HAN) Health Advisory (CDCHAN-00504) to inform clinicians and public health officials of an increase in global and U.S. measles cases.
The U.S. CDC recently republished a global Watch-Level 1, Practice Usual Precautions, Travel Health Notice, identifying measles outbreaks in 46 countries.

As World Tuberculosis Day approaches on March 24, 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) released an investment case for tuberculosis (TB) screening and preventive treatment. 
This year's World Tuberculosis Day is commemorated under the theme 'Yes! We can end TB', conveying a message of hope.
In 2023, the WHO's Director-General announced plans to establish a new TB Vaccine Accelerator Council to encourage proactive strategies.

In the United States, influenza is a significant health concern each year, affecting millions of people and leading to hospitalization and death for many.
Flu vaccines have been recommended for over five decades and have been proven to lower the risk of flu and its severe complications in those who receive it.
The composition of U.S. flu vaccines is reviewed annually in time for newer flu vaccines to be manufactured each year.

Numerous scientists are currently working to prevent the next pandemic in 2024. To prepare for it, countries need to take certain measures says the World Health Organization (WHO).
In February 2018, the WHO included the term "Disease X" in its Blueprint list of diseases for the first time.
According to the WHO, this concept represents the knowledge that a pathogen currently unknown to cause human disease could cause a serious international epidemic.

National Immunization Days (NIDs) are essential to eradicating diseases worldwide. Celebrated annually on March 16th, the goal of NIDs is to identify children who are either not fully immunized or only partially protected and to enhance immunity in those who have already been immunized.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), vaccination is an effective and safe way of preventing harmful diseases. A vaccine uses the body's natural defenses to build a resistance wall to specific infections and make the vaccinated individual's immune system stronger.