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How quickly can we get a COVID-19 vaccine?
It is clear that the search for COVID-19 vaccines is being fast-tracked like never before. In just a few months, we now have over 100 vaccine candidates in development, ten of which are being tested in clinical trials.
Agencies call for joint effort to safely deliver routine immunization and proceed with vaccination campaigns against deadly vaccine-preventable diseases.
Experts are warning that COVID-19 could become an endemic disease. What does this mean and how will it impact our response?
How do you keep pregnant women safe during a pandemic?
Pregnant women can be more exposed to risk during outbreaks. With 200 million pregnant women in the world, is the global pandemic response adequate to protect them, and not just from the coronavirus?
Rwanda’s efforts to strengthen its health system paying off in midst of COVID-19 pandemic
The country has made strategic investments including supply chain strengthening and technological innovation, all of which have allowed critical immunisation activities to continue during and beyond the quarantine.
Is air travel risky in the age of COVID-19?
Does air travel increase your chances of getting becoming infected by the novel coronavirus and contracting COVID-19?
What is contact tracing, how could it reduce the spread of COVID-19, and how could it affect me?
Controlling the pandemic demands a multi-pronged approach with other key methods like contact tracing to help stop the chain of transmission.
Q&A with Jonathan Stambolis, CEO of Zenysis Technologies
Zenysis is an advanced analytics software company. Their platform helps countries harness the life-saving power of data to improve the delivery of essential health services, like childhood vaccination, and to fight infectious disease outbreaks.…
The future with COVID-19: three potential scenarios
What our lives will look in the short to medium term future is uncertain, but what does seem clear is we won’t return to a pre-COVID-19 life any time soon. Here are three potential scenarios that infectious disease experts have sketched out for…
Maintaining commitment to immunization in Africa through COVID-19 and beyond
The COVID-19 pandemic is putting a strain on health systems worldwide. The increasing demand on health facilities and health care workers has dramatically shifted resources from essential routine health services to COVID-19 response as countries…
The poorest are most likely to die from COVID-19
Social inequity will put the poorest populations at greater risk from COVID-19
How COVID-19 could be causing a rare complication in children
Initially, children seemed to be least affected by the new coronavirus. However, new evidence suggests that a small number might have a rare immune reaction to COVID-19, with some needing intensive care.
