Felix Adipare has drawn inspiration from colleagues all over the world in his efforts to improve vaccination coverage in his district in Ghana. These learnings helped boost vaccine coverage from 60% to 99% in just a year.

Leaders credit public trust in the health care system and a popular appreciation of the value of vaccination.

In their quest to detect early outbreaks, virus hunters are sampling environmental DNA in water, dirt, and air.

Some 22,000 Nigerians are suspected to have been infected with the deadly vaccine-preventable disease in the past year. But health workers in some of the worst-affected areas say immunisation rates are picking up.

Maternal mortality in the UK is the highest for decades - as a barometer for a nation’s health, this is a statistic we cannot ignore

Vaccinating post-exposure can give our immune system a strong enough boost to fight the disease before it’s fatal.

Research highlights the importance of maternal vaccination to protect infants against severe COVID-19 until they are old enough to be vaccinated themselves.

The trucks will support the government’s efforts to strengthen its immunisation programme through safe and timely delivery of vaccines across the country.

The frontline worker who lost her feet in a train accident, but never the resolve to eradicate polio from Pakistan.

After decades of development and testing, the malaria vaccines now being rolled out across Africa are the first to ever successfully target a parasite, rather than a virus or bacterium. But how do these revolutionary vaccines work? 

Fears of a repeat of 2008’s devastating epidemic recede as residents welcome roll-out of 2.3 million doses of oral cholera vaccine. 

What impact will climate change have on immunisation? Much of the focus to date has been on the changing distribution of infectious diseases, but health workers in the Global South have highlighted a multitude of other climate-related challenges…