Authorities estimate it will take the floodwaters half a year to recede. Displaced women will be hanging on through an especially perilous period.

Reversals in immunization coverage in Latin America and the Caribbean are putting millions of children’s lives at risk.

Worldwide 25 million children missed out on one or more doses of life-saving vaccines in 2021, while 18 million have never received a single dose of vaccines, also known as Zero Dose children (WHO and UNICEF data, 2022).

Pakistan is one of just two countries where the polio virus remains endemic. Challenges remain in identifying and vaccinating all children, but data management software is providing a way forward.

Floodwater doesn’t only kill through drowning. Its long-term effects can also take a huge toll on people’s physical and psychological health.

The pandemic has disrupted national immunisation programmes. As a result, the African continent is seeing more outbreaks of vaccine preventable diseases.

Maybe more surprising than a 4,000-year-old prescription for ‘extract of crocodile’ or a 2,600-year-old warning that sex after rich food can cause leprosy, is how much the ancient medics got right.

For children in fragile and conflict-prone settings who have been out of reach of the government’s immunisation programmes, there is hope.

A look at the risk factors behind the increasing cases of early-onset cancer.

With 1.7 billion doses delivered to more than 140 countries and territories, COVAX is the largest, most complex vaccine rollout in history. The innovations made along the way could play an important role in fighting the next pandemic.

Worrying about how many people believe false ideas misses the real danger – that people are influenced by them whether they believe them or not.

UK data indicates that even though vaccinated people may have breakthrough infections, they are at less risk of developing Long COVID than those who are not vaccinated.