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5 questions with Unilever’s Rebecca Marmot
Gavi has been working with Unilever since 2017 to raise awareness of both immunisation and handwashing across India. VaccinesWork spoke to Rebecca Marmot, Unilever’s Chief Sustainability Officer, about the Safal Shuruaat programme, why…
Scale-up insulin access urgently, drugmakers told
Diabetes cases expected to rise to 643 million by 2030, with poorer countries most affected. In 24 low- and middle-income countries, no insulins are registered by regulatory authorities. Drugs companies must accelerate efforts to widen access to…
After the floods comes disease: IDP camps in flood-hit Pakistan
The short-term devastation of Pakistan’s horrendous floods is now giving way to long-term impacts, as disease and ill-health begins to spread among the country’s displaced persons camps.
COVID-19 has turned back decades of progress on reducing maternal and child deaths
New research has revealed the impact of healthcare disruption during the pandemic on maternal and child health. The Global Financing Facility’s Tashrik Ahmed and Bruno Rivalan discuss the implications.
Monkeypox cases waning, but global threat remains
The global outbreak is winding down, but scientists say this is the time to use vaccines and antivirals to control the virus before it mutates into a bigger threat.
Community health workers as vaccinators: A pathway to achieving global immunisation goals
A shortage of health workers has made the roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines in many lower-income countries a major challenge. In Malawi, community health workers are helping to fill the gap.
Children in rich countries increasingly miss out on lifesaving vaccines
Fewer vaccines against diseases like measles, rubella and polio are being given to children in the UK, as numbers continue to fall year on year.
Some coronaviruses kill, while others cause a common cold. We are getting closer to knowing why
The enigmatic envelope protein seems to hold the key to understanding why some human coronaviruses cause more severe disease than others.
How women’s cooperatives in India emerged as COVID-19 first responders
Integrating COVID-19 campaigns into the work that the Self-Employed Women’s Association does ensured that rural communities were not left out.
Japan invests to ensure pandemic vaccines can be made in 100 days
The country will put US$ 2 billion in a research initiative to help turn a vaccine around at speed when the next pandemic comes along.
If governments fail to take action, the cost of living crisis will worsen the impact of the pandemic this winter, and vice versa.
Nepal integrates hygiene promotion with routine immunisation
Communities in Nepal combined sanitation awareness campaigns with routine immunisation during the pandemic. It might just have helped them keep COVID-19 under control.
