Innovation

Articles related to technologies and innovation that aim to improve health systems and immunisation coverage.

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With the high smartphone adoption rate among Nigerians, public health experts call for more developers to build health-focused mobile games for a healthy country. Credit Jesusegun Alagb

The mobile game driving vaccine awareness in Nigeria

23 Sep 2025

6 min read

Made in Africa Innovation

Indicators used in tracking innovation in Africa are borrowed from high-income countries. Credit: Getty Images

Africa’s innovations are overlooked because global measures don’t fit: what needs to change

28 Aug 2025

5 min read

Cross-posts Innovation

Blood pressure machines being handed over to women in the community. Credit. Zim TechWomen

In Zimbabwe an AI “midwife” is making pregnancy safer for underserved women

21 Aug 2025

7 min read

Innovation Made in Africa Maternal and child health

Solar powered medicine fridges in a Malawi clinic. Credit: Gates Foundation

Solar power keeps vaccine fridges humming in climate-hit Mozambique

14 Aug 2025

5 min read

Climate change Innovation

Mothers at an immunisation session at the Ominako Community-Based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) facility in the Eastern Region of Ghana, on May 6, 2025. Gavi/2025/Nipsh Dennis

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance: 25 years in 25 moments

24 Jun 2025

9 min read

Vaccine development Innovation Routine immunisation

Tugsjargal at her health checkup prior to vaccination. Gavi/2024/Khasar Sandag

5 ways Gavi has saved lives through innovative finance – and there’s more to come

11 Jun 2025

4 min read

Innovation

No more second shots: a step towards self-boosting vaccines

6 Jun 2025

4 min read

Vaccine manufacturing Innovation

Nigerian woman using her phone. Credit: KC Nwakalor for USAID

In Nigeria, AI tools are changing how people access healthcare

3 Jun 2025

5 min read

Innovation Made in Africa

Dr. Sania Nishtar, CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, visited Ghana to observe the country’s pioneering efforts in integrating biometric technology into healthcare delivery. Credit: Simprints

Gavi CEO, Dr. Sania Nishtar visits Ghana to support biometric innovation in healthcare

20 May 2025

3 min read

Cross-posts Innovation

Is frugal healthcare innovation the future of global healthcare? Image: Getty Images

How frugal healthcare innovation can rebuild global health systems

15 May 2025

4 min read

Cross-posts Innovation

Zipline delivery of malaria vaccines in Nigeria. Credit: Zipline

Flying malaria vaccines reach isolated Nigerian communities

22 Apr 2025

5 min read

Malaria Innovation

Boy in Emerson respirator (iron lung) in Herman Keifer Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, due to polio. Viewing photographer (Joe Clark) in machine's mirror. Ca. 1955. Credit: Otis Historical Archives National Museum of Health and Medicine

A 'new medical age': 70 years of polio vaccination

11 Apr 2025

11 min read

Polio Innovation

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