Fiji Moves First - Every Breath Counts

Fiji Moves First - Every Breath Counts

How a Pacific vaccine innovator became the first low- or middle-income country to reduce its pneumococcal vaccine schedule from three doses to two For more than a decade, Fiji has protected its children against pneumococcal disease with three doses of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, or PCV. In 2026, the Pacific nation is preparing to become the first low- or middle-income country to move to a two dose PCV schedule: one dose in infancy followed b…