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Hello, 2023: Gavi’s Board votes in a plan for the coming year
Here are six of the vaccine organisation’s top priorities for a brand new ”Year of Renewal”.
Gavi Board Decisions Outline “Year of Renewal” for Vaccine Alliance
Board underlines commitment to end backsliding in routine immunisation, catching up coverage and reaching zero-dose children as the Vaccine Alliance’s core priorities for the remainder of the current 2020–2025 strategic period.
An ethnographic study gets below the surface of false rumours that swirled in North Kivu after the pandemic landed, finding valuable insights beneath factual inaccuracy.
A dog parasite could help fight incurable cancers – what our immunotherapy research revealed
New research has found that a parasite first identified in dogs could help stimulate the human immune system to attack cells of cancerous tumours.
Why diphtheria presents a growing threat to our health
Recent outbreaks of diphtheria in Europe and Pakistan highlight the importance of routine immunisation against this killer.
Measles: why the World Health Organization has declared it an ‘imminent global threat’
Many children have missed a measles vaccine dose since the start of the COVID pandemic.
Digital tracking of vaccines is boosting health system oversight
Successful pilot programmes in Nigeria and Rwanda show how digital verification and traceability of healthcare products can increase access to medicine through stock and supply chain visibility, even as it helps tackle the growing problem of…
This research gets the world a step closer to a hepatitis C vaccine
Using a Nobel Prize-winning technique called cryo-EM, researchers were able to identify potential areas on the hepatitis C virus that a vaccine could target.
One dose of HPV vaccine produces a long-lasting immune response, shows study
WHO said this year that just one dose of the vaccine against cervical cancer is protective. Now a study has confirmed that the immune response remains strong ten years post-vaccination.
A third of babies born to Zika-infected mothers developed abnormalities
An analysis of 13 studies has provided the clearest assessment yet of the risks associated with Zika virus infection during pregnancy.
Overweight women may be at highest risk of long COVID – new research
A new study of people in England sought to understand what factors make people more or less susceptible to developing long COVID.
Redefining the role of fathers is helping to boost vaccination uptake in rural India
Involving fathers in their children’s health decisions improves immunisation rates and hygiene in India.