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New Zealand transfers vaccine doses to COVAX – 6 Pacific nations first to benefit
Responding to an urgent need for doses around the world, the Government of New Zealand has pledged to transfer 1.6 million doses allocated through COVAX to lower-income economies.
Keeping vaccines cool with cold chain
With millions of COVID-19 vaccines now being delivered around the world, they are utilising a huge hidden infrastructure, built up over decades and spreading across the globe, with one ultimate goal: keeping the vaccines cool. How did these…
What steps must be taken to secure oxygen - for COVID-19 patients and into the future
New waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in countries, such as Kenya and India, have exposed the poor management of oxygen supplies. Moina Spooner, from The Conversation Africa, asked Professor Trevor Duke, an expert on [oxygen provision] and editor of…
Encouraging vaccination in Nairobi: “If we work on awareness and motivation, we are good to go”
Pamela Anyango is on a mission to boost vaccine coverage in Dandora, Kenya, home to a garbage dump that has been labelled the ‘cradle of the next pandemic’.
Is it safe to mix and match COVID-19 vaccines?
Mixing COVID-19 is being proposed in some countries but is it safe to do so, and how do our immune systems react?
Malawi takes on religious beliefs that discourage immunisation
Malawi’s Ministry of Health is using its structures to reach out to a small section of religious groups that are threatening the success of the country’s immunisation programme.
Call to action to equip COVAX to deliver 2 billion doses in 2021
Countries that are advanced in their vaccination programmes are seeing cases of COVID-19 decline, hospitalisations decrease and early signs of some kind of normality resume. However, the global picture is far more concerning.
Yellow Fever and the Panama Canal
At the turn of the 20th Century, US researchers in Cuba made the historic discovery that mosquitoes spread yellow fever. The finding was not only a medical breakthrough; it would also make possible one of the world’s greatest feats of engineering…
The next pandemic: Rift Valley fever?
Rift Valley fever used to mostly affect livestock in Africa. But the virus that causes it is also spread by mosquitoes whose habitats are expanding because of climate change. If it were to make its way to the rest of the world, it would decimate…
Could a new coronavirus be spreading from dogs?
Scientists think they may have caught a canine coronavirus in the process of adapting to humans.
The point of it: Why do vaccine delivery methods vary?
Some vaccines are injected into muscle; others are given orally, or under the skin. What difference does it make to our immune response?
How to give a COVID-mitigated hug
No activity that brings you into someone else’s breathing space is safe, but the risks associated with hugging can be lowered by taking some simple precautions.
