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Anna Kramvis – A big job in a small world

Frontiers

In line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good health and well-being , we discuss the progress of hepatitis B research and the challenges faced, including the COVID-19 pandemic, lack of funding, and low vaccination rates. As a result of lockdown-imposed home births, critical birth-dose vaccinations have reduced.

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Slashed Federal Funding Cancels Vaccine Clinics Amid Measles Surge

KFF Health News

billion in covid-related funds for state and local health departments in late March. “I’m particularly concerned about the accessibility of vaccines for vulnerable populations,” former U.S. surgeon general Jerome Adams told KFF Health News. . surgeon general Jerome Adams told KFF Health News.

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New Covid shots may be hard to come by for uninsured Georgians

HEALTHBEAT

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free Atlanta newsletter here. Updated Covid vaccines, slated to hit shelves this week, could come with serious sticker shock for more than a million Georgians who don’t have health insurance. The shots will cost around $201.99 Will you get the new Covid shots?