Better strategies are needed to overcome vaccine hesitancy, but these need to be tailormade for regions.

‘Hybrid immunity’ is the term for immunity acquired from both prior infection and vaccination.

A technology NGO is replacing paper vaccination records with simple, cost-effective technical solutions in the Gambia and Uganda.

Souleymane Sawadogo, Vice President of Global Health at Parsyl, tells us how innovation and data are revolutionising vaccine supply chains.

Artificial lights could trick malaria-transmitting mosquito species that feed nocturnally into behaving as if it’s daytime.

Increasing access to antimicrobials ‘can help stop resistance’. The ‘silent pandemic’ of antimicrobial resistance can be beaten by improving access to treatment, new research says.

Many people have been left with longer-term impairments to their sense of smell following COVID.

The parasite’s complex biology played a role in the delay, but experts say there was also a lack of urgency and funding.

A large six-country study in Africa shows that pregnant women are more likely to be admitted to intensive care or to die if they have COVID-19, indicating the importance of vaccination.

Pfizer and Moderna have both recently reported results for their COVID-19 vaccines in the youngest children.

We expected to find that screening everybody for TB would identify individuals not yet diagnosed, and treating them quickly would reduce the prevalence of TB in the community.

Recent vaccination campaigns in Afar and other regions are filling some of the gaps in routine immunisation brought about by recent conflict.