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The need for culturally sensitive COVID-19 vaccine campaigns in sub-Saharan Africa
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.
How digitisation is ensuring no child is left behind
A technology NGO is replacing paper vaccination records with simple, cost-effective technical solutions in the Gambia and Uganda.
5 questions with Parsyl’s Souleymane Sawadogo
Souleymane Sawadogo, Vice President of Global Health at Parsyl, tells us how innovation and data are revolutionising vaccine supply chains.
Artificial light may become a new weapon in the fight to control malaria
Artificial lights could trick malaria-transmitting mosquito species that feed nocturnally into behaving as if it’s daytime.
Improve antibiotics access to beat ‘silent pandemic’
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.
COVID: six ways long-term smell loss can affect you
Many people have been left with longer-term impairments to their sense of smell following COVID.
It Took 35 years to Get a Malaria Vaccine. Why?
The parasite’s complex biology played a role in the delay, but experts say there was also a lack of urgency and funding.
COVID-19 greatly increases risks to pregnant women: largest sub-Saharan study
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.
COVID vaccines for children under five: what parents need to know
Pfizer and Moderna have both recently reported results for their COVID-19 vaccines in the youngest children.
HIV control approaches may not work for TB: lessons from South Africa and Zambia
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.
Measles vaccines offer hope in conflict-affected parts of Ethiopia
Recent vaccination campaigns in Afar and other regions are filling some of the gaps in routine immunisation brought about by recent conflict.