Fund for maternal, child health project

Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and icddr,b signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) yesterday at icddr,b for a project titled ‘Maternal and child health project in Bangladesh to increase influenza vaccine immunization coverage for pregnant women and children’. 

Korean Ambassador to Bangladesh Ahn Seong-doo, Joe Hyun-Gue, Country Director of KOICA Bangladesh Office and Prof John Clemens, executive director of icddr,b signed the agreement. 
KOICA will provide funding of over half a million USD for a joint icddr,b and KUMC (Korea University Medical Center)  project to study the effectiveness of vaccinating pregnant women with the influenza vaccine. The data resulting from this study will be shared with the international community to provide evidence for policy change and research into the reduction of child mortality. The long term aim of the project is to reduce mortality rate of newborns through vaccinating pregnant women.  This project will initially cover 10,000 people, however, the long term goal of the project is to facilitate the scale up at national level, which will result in vaccinating 4 million pregnant women annually in Bangladesh.  The study will demonstrate the effectiveness of the vaccine and will be key in providing evidence to policy makers in Bangladesh and across the Global South that a national vaccination campaign can save lives.   Green Cross, a Korean pharmaceutical company, will contribute to the collaboration by donating influenza vaccine for the study. Furthermore, the study will be conducted in close collaboration with the Program of Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) under the Directorate of Health Services, Government of Bangladesh. Government EPI and icddr,b.

 

Fund for maternal, child health project

Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and icddr,b signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) yesterday at icddr,b for a project titled Maternal and child health project in Bangladesh to increase influenza vaccine immunization coverage for pregnant women and children. Korean Ambassador to Bangladesh Ahn Seong-doo, Joe Hyun-Gue, Country Director of KOICA Bangladesh Office and Prof John Clemens, executive director of icddr,b signed the agreement. KOICA will provide funding of over half a million USD for a joint icddr,b and KUMC (Korea University Medical Center) project to study the effectiveness of vaccinating pregnant women with the influenza vaccine. The data resulting from this study will be shared with the international community to provide evidence for policy change and research into the reduction of child mortality. The long term aim of the project is to reduce mortality rate of newborns through vaccinating pregnant women. This project will initially cover 10,000 people, however, the long term goal of the project is to facilitate the scale up at national level, which will result in vaccinating 4 million pregnant women annually in Bangladesh. The study will demonstrate the effectiveness of the vaccine and will be key in providing evidence to policy makers in Bangladesh and across the Global South that a national vaccination campaign can save lives. Green Cross, a Korean pharmaceutical company, will contribute to the collaboration by donating influenza vaccine for the study. Furthermore, the study will be conducted in close collaboration with the Program of Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) under the Directorate of Health Services, Government of Bangladesh. Government EPI and icddr,b.