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How women’s cooperatives in India emerged as COVID-19 first responders
Integrating COVID-19 campaigns into the work that the Self-Employed Women’s Association does ensured that rural communities were not left out.
Japan invests to ensure pandemic vaccines can be made in 100 days
The country will put US$ 2 billion in a research initiative to help turn a vaccine around at speed when the next pandemic comes along.
If governments fail to take action, the cost of living crisis will worsen the impact of the pandemic this winter, and vice versa.
Nepal integrates hygiene promotion with routine immunisation
Communities in Nepal combined sanitation awareness campaigns with routine immunisation during the pandemic. It might just have helped them keep COVID-19 under control.
A mountain to climb: often – too often – the “last mile” is a health worker’s extra mile
Michelline Uwimana treks through the mountainous terrain of rural Uganda come rain or shine. The walk is gruelling, but the alternative – communities going without vital healthcare – would be worse.
Smartwatches could help detect and track COVID – here’s what the research shows
Smartwatches could provide an extra line of defence to help us keep COVID and other infectious diseases at bay. Here’s what the evidence says.
What’s really happening with global vaccine access?
A new scorecard offers insights at a glance from the country to global level.
What do we know about the outbreak of Ebola in Uganda so far?
The outbreak is the first to be caused by the Sudan virus in more than a decade, and efforts are already underway to test whether new candidate vaccines against Ebola Sudan will be protective.
Sierra Leone introduces HPV vaccine to protect girls from cervical cancer
In a move to protect adolescent girls from cervical cancer, the Government of Sierra Leone today introduced the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine to the routine immunisation schedule and launched the start of a campaign to reach 153,991 girls…
Hunting for Pi – the next variant after Omicron – in the toilet
Tracking the circulation of infectious diseases through wastewater is not new, but it’s becoming vital in the hunt for the next version of COVID-19.
Ghana revives its polio immunisation drive
In September 2022, Ghana completed the first of two four-day national immunisation drives against polio, following the confirmation of two acute flaccid paralysis cases in the country.
COVID-related changes in our personalities could go some way to explaining the widespread decrease in wellbeing.