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A broad coalition pulls together to help Indonesia curb polio in its vaccine-shyest province
Aceh is 95% vaccinated against Type 2 polio following a recent shock outbreak, a landmark achievement in the notoriously vaccine-hesitant province.
In rural Zimbabwe, electric tricycles are saving lives
Igava Clinic has surpassed its vaccination targets using hambas, electric tricycles powered by renewable energy
Snow-capped peaks and ice-lined refrigerators: extending the cold chain far into Nepal’s Himalayas
Reliable transportation and electricity can be a tall order in the high mountains, but investments in the cold chain have brought vaccines several steps closer to the community.
Drugs in development mostly cater to the needs of high-income countries, rather than lower income countries where the burden of drug-resistant infections is typically higher.
Poo-free zone: How Nigeria is winning the war against open defecation
Jigawa was declared Nigeria’s first open defecation-free state in October. It hasn’t taken long for that victory to translate to noticeably better public health.
Do a Quarter of Kids Really Get Long Covid? It’s Complicated.
While the numbers are hard to pin down, some researchers say their colleagues have overstated the risks.
Beyond cervical cancer: How Bhutan is winning the war against HPV
The small Himalayan country of Bhutan plans to eliminate cervical cancer, and sees vaccinating boys as well as girls as being crucial to that goal.
“I rushed without hesitation”: Rotavirus vaccines return to an outbreak-hit county in Kenya
Supply chain disruption triggered a season of vaccine stockouts and sickness in Nakuru county. Now, health workers and parents are rushing to get their vulnerable babies protected.
COVID, bird flu, mpox – a virologist on why we’re seeing so many viruses emerge
It’s likely a combination of the incidence of viral outbreaks increasing, and the fact we’re getting better at detecting them.
An immunologist’s reflections on nine months of long COVID
In 2022, Dr Stéphanie Longet got COVID-19 and then Long COVID. Here, Longet, who studies vaccine-induced immunity, talks to VaccinesWork about her mission to understand the condition better.
#VaccinesWork’s top 10 Long COVID stories
Long COVID has altered the lives of millions of people, all living in the limbo of experiencing COVID-19 symptoms weeks or months after their initial infection, yet not knowing how or when they will recover. On International Long COVID Awareness…
The Marburg virus, a close cousin of Ebola, currently has no approved treatments or vaccines to protect against it.