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Polio-free India: It seemed impossible until it was done
Dr Hamid Jafari, Director of Polio for the WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean Region, reflects on his time eradicating polio in India and what lessons we can take from this to address the final challenges for achieving eradication in Afghanistan and…
COVID and your gut: how a healthy microbiome can reduce the severity of infection – and vice versa
The microbes in our gut have many roles, including to support immune function.
Typhoid is rampant in countries with poor water, sanitation, hygiene and food safety, and the bacterium is developing resistance to almost every antibiotic available. This means that rolling out the typhoid conjugate vaccine is more urgent than…
How Botswana, a self-financing COVAX country, solved its pandemic strategy puzzle
If anyone knows that a radically inclusive health agenda can rout a rampant virus, it's Botswana. That's part of why, in 2020, the government "jumped at" the chance to join COVAX, Health Minister Edwin Dikoloti tells VaccinesWork. But that was…
An overactive immune response to infection can be deadly. Studying how one key player called tumor necrosis factor, or TNF, induces lethal immune responses could provide new treatment targets.
HIV remains a leading killer in Africa despite medical breakthroughs – how to eliminate it
We need a combination of new approaches to reduce age disparate sex. And we need new technologies to protect young women.
Colds, flu and COVID: how diet and lifestyle can boost your immune system
Here are some simple things you can do everyday to help your immune system fight off infections.
Ukraine’s measles vaccine backlash illustrates the value of vaccine safety
A false attribution of bacterial meningitis to the measles vaccine in Ukraine in 2008 led to more than 130,000 cases of measles, 40 deaths and nearly US$ 140 million in economic damage worldwide. Gavi’s Dr Lee Hampton sets out the lessons we can…
What’s behind the recent surge in strep A and scarlet fever?
One explanation could be that a recent spike in respiratory virus infections has left people more susceptible to infection with group A streptococcus.
Here’s what we know about the new Omicron variant XBB.1.5
A new subvariant of Omicron that caused a spike in cases in the northern hemisphere last winter is spreading like wildfire across the world, but how worried should we be?
How COVID can disturb your sleep and dreams – and what could help
If you’ve had trouble sleeping during or after a COVID infection, you’re not alone.
COVID in 2023 and beyond – why virus trends are more difficult to predict three years on
One thing is for certain though – the pandemic is not over yet.
