Michelline Uwimana treks through the mountainous terrain of rural Uganda come rain or shine. The walk is gruelling, but the alternative – communities going without vital healthcare – would be worse.

Smartwatches could provide an extra line of defence to help us keep COVID and other infectious diseases at bay. Here’s what the evidence says.

A new scorecard offers insights at a glance from the country to global level.

The outbreak is the first to be caused by the Sudan virus in more than a decade, and efforts are already underway to test whether new candidate vaccines against Ebola Sudan will be protective.

In a move to protect adolescent girls from cervical cancer, the Government of Sierra Leone today introduced the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine to the routine immunisation schedule and launched the start of a campaign to reach 153,991 girls…

Tracking the circulation of infectious diseases through wastewater is not new, but it’s becoming vital in the hunt for the next version of COVID-19.

In September 2022, Ghana completed the first of two four-day national immunisation drives against polio, following the confirmation of two acute flaccid paralysis cases in the country.

COVID-related changes in our personalities could go some way to explaining the widespread decrease in wellbeing.

Gavi’s 2021 Annual Progress Report, released today, is a record in numbers of another difficult pandemic year – a year of alarming setbacks, and a year of hard-won gains.

Prof José Manuel Barroso, Chair of the Gavi Board, reflects on the achievements of lower-income countries during the pandemic.

Dr Seth Berkley, CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, looks back on the first year of Gavi 5.0

Routine immunisation coverage fell for a second consecutive year in 2021 across 57 Gavi-supported countries, although preliminary data shows signs of improvement in early 2022.