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Pakistan’s flood crisis is particularly tough on poor women. Here’s why
Authorities estimate it will take the floodwaters half a year to recede. Displaced women will be hanging on through an especially perilous period.
Technical Note: Spotlight on immunization declines in Latin America and the Caribbean
Reversals in immunization coverage in Latin America and the Caribbean are putting millions of children’s lives at risk.
Stop and reverse the decline in immunization for Zero-Dose children
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).
Combining health datasets is helping polio vaccination efforts in Pakistan
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.
Pakistan floods: Six ways in which flooding affects health
Floodwater doesn’t only kill through drowning. Its long-term effects can also take a huge toll on people’s physical and psychological health.
COVID pandemic created immunisation gaps in Africa. Over half a million children are at risk
The pandemic has disrupted national immunisation programmes. As a result, the African continent is seeing more outbreaks of vaccine preventable diseases.
5 ancient diseases and what the ancients said about them
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.
Cameroon maps out strategy to reach zero-dose children with immunisation
For children in fragile and conflict-prone settings who have been out of reach of the government’s immunisation programmes, there is hope.
Cancer in the under 50s is rising, globally – why?
A look at the risk factors behind the increasing cases of early-onset cancer.
7 COVAX innovations that could help us fight the next pandemic
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.
Conspiracy theories are dangerous even if very few people believe them
Worrying about how many people believe false ideas misses the real danger – that people are influenced by them whether they believe them or not.
COVID-19 vaccination protects against Long COVID
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.