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How story-telling is helping girls access the HPV vaccine in Ethiopia and Tanzania
Girls and women hold the key to improving access to healthcare for families across Ethiopia and Tanzania, starting with the HPV vaccine.
“A pivotal moment”: Sierra Leone makes HPV vaccine available to girls across country
More than 150,000 girls across Sierra Leone will have access to the HPV vaccine after the government introduced it into the routine immunisation programme.
Rift Valley fever: What’s next for the climate-driven disease with epidemic potential?
CEPI Vaccine R&D Project Leader, Mike Whelan, discusses the characteristics of the disease and CEPI's new call with the European Union to advance Rift Valley fever vaccines.
My third COVID-19 infection: Why reinfection can be anything but mild
Vaccination and natural immunity have dramatically reduced the death toll from COVID-19, but catching COVID-19 for a third time is still no walk in the park, as Linda Geddes discovered last week.
5 questions with Unilever’s Rebecca Marmot
Gavi has been working with Unilever since 2017 to raise awareness of both immunisation and handwashing across India. VaccinesWork spoke to Rebecca Marmot, Unilever’s Chief Sustainability Officer, about the Safal Shuruaat programme, why…
Scale-up insulin access urgently, drugmakers told
Diabetes cases expected to rise to 643 million by 2030, with poorer countries most affected. In 24 low- and middle-income countries, no insulins are registered by regulatory authorities. Drugs companies must accelerate efforts to widen access to…
After the floods comes disease: IDP camps in flood-hit Pakistan
The short-term devastation of Pakistan’s horrendous floods is now giving way to long-term impacts, as disease and ill-health begins to spread among the country’s displaced persons camps.
COVID-19 has turned back decades of progress on reducing maternal and child deaths
New research has revealed the impact of healthcare disruption during the pandemic on maternal and child health. The Global Financing Facility’s Tashrik Ahmed and Bruno Rivalan discuss the implications.
Monkeypox cases waning, but global threat remains
The global outbreak is winding down, but scientists say this is the time to use vaccines and antivirals to control the virus before it mutates into a bigger threat.
Community health workers as vaccinators: A pathway to achieving global immunisation goals
A shortage of health workers has made the roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines in many lower-income countries a major challenge. In Malawi, community health workers are helping to fill the gap.
Children in rich countries increasingly miss out on lifesaving vaccines
Fewer vaccines against diseases like measles, rubella and polio are being given to children in the UK, as numbers continue to fall year on year.
Some coronaviruses kill, while others cause a common cold. We are getting closer to knowing why
The enigmatic envelope protein seems to hold the key to understanding why some human coronaviruses cause more severe disease than others.