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The community health workers getting people vaccinated in Uganda
As Community Health Workers, Harriet Nankwanzi and Yusuf Maganda have built personal relationships with people in their communities who have over the years relied on their services to access vital health information.
Asia and Africa offer lessons in health systems resilience
In this pandemic, the income level of a country proved not to be a guarantee of an effective COVID-19 response; this analysis shows the key factors in a resilient health system to protect against future outbreaks.
Do children need to be vaccinated against COVID-19?
Children have so far been able to evade the worst effects of COVID-19, but this could be changing as new variants and other factors seem to be putting more at risk.
Poo and the pandemic: How sewage is helping us fight COVID-19
Many countries are beginning to use wastewater monitoring to track COVID-19 outbreaks, but such sewage surveillance has a long history.
“If we don’t go out there, nobody would”: Vaccinating during an insurgency in Nigeria
Health workers go above and beyond the call of duty to ensure that the children of Borno State, Nigeria, are vaccinated.
The impact of COVID-19 on Malawi’s routine immunisation programmes
The pandemic is having an adverse effect on Malawi’s continued drive to provide all children with routine vaccines.
Fighting the flu: 100 years of preparing for pandemics
Although the world’s eyes are currently focused on COVID-19, a network of laboratories has been tracking the emergence and spread of a different virus for seven decades.
Nomads in lockdown: COVAX reaches the Mongolian steppes
As COVAX vaccines reach the rural Batsumber in Mongolia, livestock herders hope that the loneliness of the pandemic era will soon come to an end.
Why we support COVAX: UBS and UBS Optimus Foundation
The UBS Optimus Foundation has launched a campaign to help secure funding for the COVAX Advance Market Commitment. Vaccines Work spoke to Tom Hall, the UBS Head of Philanthropy Services to find out why.
Individuals can now directly fund vaccines for lower-income countries via the Gavi COVAX AMC to help end the pandemic. The platform will give businesses a chance to match employee and customer contributions.
COVID vaccines: some fully vaccinated people will still get infected – here’s why
Reports of fully vaccinated people getting infected with coronavirus shouldn't cause alarm.
How "camel riders" are helping the COVID-19 vaccine push in Kenya
With tourism hit hard by the pandemic, camel riders in Northern Kenya have repurposed their herds to help spread the word about COVID-19 vaccines, using traditional healers to gain trust in the community.