Stories from the community

Features from VaccinesWork’s team of writers across the world, telling the stories behind the headlines.

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The efforts to stop polio promise to prevent innumerable children from lifelong paralysis. Credit: GAVI/2013/Manpreet Romana

We are at a crossroads for polio eradication. My experience in India shows why it’s still achievable.

9 Nov 2022

6 min read

Cross-posts Polio

A vaccination team going on a boat (locally made with plastic barrels) to vaccinate children against Typhoid, during the TCV campaign in Sohbatpur city. Credit: Gavi/Asad Zaidi

“It’s difficult, but we’ll find a way”: a new vaccine against typhoid rolls out in a flood-devastated province of Pakistan

4 Nov 2022

8 min read

Antimicrobial resistance Climate change Typhoid

Launch of the Malaria pilot vaccine in Ghana. Credit: WHO/Fanjan Combrink

My malaria story: living in hope

31 Oct 2022

5 min read

Malaria Routine immunisation

A child receives Oral Polio Vaccine in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. Credit: Ministry of National Health Services

Pakistan is working with Rotary to eradicate polio

31 Oct 2022

4 min read

Outbreaks Polio Vaccine campaigns

The pandemic and a health workers’ strike disrupted essential health services. Donwilson Odhiambo/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

COVID and health workers’ strike: how Kenya’s health services coped in times of crisis

27 Oct 2022

6 min read

Cross-posts Ebola COVID-19

Dr Jane Aceng, Minister of Health, discharging the first patients to recover from the Sudan Ebolavirus in Uganda. Credit: Emmanuel Ainebyoona, Ugandan Ministry of Health

“Everybody has heard how it kills”: Uganda’s veteran health system ramps up its Ebola response

27 Oct 2022

5 min read

Outbreaks Ebola

Women need to be involved at every level of decision-making. Luke Dray/Getty Images

Ebola in Uganda: why women must be central to the response

26 Oct 2022

5 min read

Cross-posts Outbreaks Ebola COVID-19

Huma Shaukat, call centre manager, consults with agent Faryal Tariq. Credit: Huma Khawar

Dial-a-vax: Pakistan’s 1166 helpline has answers for the country’s vaccine questions

26 Oct 2022

6 min read

Vaccine campaigns Typhoid Vaccine safety

Health workers put on a special theatre show to emphasise the importance of measles-rubella vaccines. Credit: Buimo Clinic, Miriam Key

Drama helps keep measles-rubella at bay in Papua New Guinea

25 Oct 2022

3 min read

Measles Rubella Vaccine campaigns

A group of veterinarians vaccinate a cow against lumpy skin disease. Credit: Nasir Yousufi

Vaccines fight lumpy skin disease in Jammu and Kashmir

24 Oct 2022

3 min read

Outbreaks Vaccine campaigns

Madzibaba Bongrage, a religious leader, facilitates a community dialogue on ending child marriages, promoting disability inclusion in all community activities, and encouraging the uptake of health services by apostolic communities in Murara village Mutasa district. Credit: Apostolic Women Empowerment Trust, AWET

Zimbabwe conducts emergency measles campaign

20 Oct 2022

5 min read

Measles Vaccine campaigns Outbreaks

Mitesh Shrestha, researcher at the Research Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology (RIBB), Balkumkari, Nepal. Credit: Chhatra Karki

How antimicrobial resistance could trigger the next health crisis in Nepal

19 Oct 2022

5 min read

Antimicrobial resistance

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