Newsroom

Overview

Welcome to the MVP newsroom. The newsroom allows easy access to current and past press releases from MVP, WHO meningitis-related press releases, and MVP quarterly news digests. The newsroom also provides a range of resources, including MVP fact sheets, answers to frequently asked questions, interviews and stories from the field, photographs, and audio and video clips.

Press releases

African health ministers to introduce new vaccine to prevent deadly meningitis epidemics - 4 September 2008 (pdf 29 kb)

Read the Yaoundé Declaration (pdf 27 kb)

Improved meningitis vaccine for Africa could signal eventual end to deadly scourge - 8 June 2007 (pdf 68 kb)

The Meningitis Vaccine Project and Serum Institute of India Limited report successful Phase 1 clinical trial of new vaccine - 15 March 2006 (pdf 74 kb)

WHO and PATH appoint director of Meningitis Vaccine Project - 30 July 2001 (pdf 76 kb)

PATH and WHO applaud $70 million award from Gates Foundation to prevent meningitis epidemics in Africa - 30 May 2001 (pdf 119 kb)