The Hib Initiative at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Hib vaccine: A critical ally in Asia's effort to reduce child deaths

A new study from Bangladesh found that routine Hib vaccination prevented over one-third of life-threatening pneumonia cases and approximately 90% of Hib meningitis cases. The vaccine has been shown to be a feasible and highly effective way of preventing death related to Hib pneumonia and meningitis in Asian children.