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Gates Foundation
1+ week, 4+ day ago (539+ words) Our progress & impact 2024 annual report: landmark accomplishments, historic progress on immunisation, significant challenges and change for Gavi and the world. Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance helps vaccinate more than half the world's children against some of the world's deadliest diseases. Gavi…...
Bundibugyo, the rare virus causing a deadly new Ebola outbreak, has no vaccine yet. Here's what we know
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (1213+ words) Scientists are racing to work out whether existing Ebola vaccines could help, or whether a new one is needed. If you would like to republish this article, please follow these steps: use the HTML below; do not edit the text;…...
How the DRC is outpacing cholera
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (623+ words) In Haut-Lomami, vaccination teams are braving floods to administer the oral cholera vaccine preventively, before the annual resurgence of the disease. If you would like to republish this article, please follow these steps: use the HTML below; do not edit…...
As temperatures rise, a new app aims to protect pregnant women from the heat
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (831+ words) Essential website updates between 07: 00-07: 15am CET 22 May 2026 may cause disruption. Mother Heat Alert is being tested in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Sweden, with tailored warnings and advice for the women most vulnerable to extreme heat. If you would like to republish…...
Inside - and outside - Namibia's fight to stop polio before it strikes
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (829+ words) Essential website updates between 07: 00-07: 15am CET 22 May 2026 may cause disruption. The threat of polio is back, and as the government races to protect the vulnerable, some are more at risk than others. If you would like to republish this article, please…...
What a list of Black Death survivors reveals about the way people recovered from plague
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (732+ words) Essential website updates between 07: 00-07: 15am CET 22 May 2026 may cause disruption. Despite the deadliness of the disease, it was possible to recover from plague, and medieval chroniclers mention the possibility " however unlikely " of survival. In our research in the British Library's medieval…...
In Mali, one year in, hybrid malaria vaccine programme shows early results
4+ day, 12+ hour ago (597+ words) Essential website updates between 07: 00-07: 15am CET 22 May 2026 may cause disruption. Health workers say they are seeing encouraging signs of the vaccine's impact, even as the programme's steepest challenge comes into focus: bringing families back for every last dose. If you would…...
Ebola survivors struggle to return to normal lives: what I found out in Sierra Leone and Liberia
5+ day, 11+ hour ago (790+ words) 10 years after official end of the Ebola pandemic, very few people know that survivors have struggled to continue with their lives. During the Ebola epidemic of 2014 to 2016, Musu, a resident of Monrovia, Liberia contracted the Ebola virus along with her…...
Displaced and adrift in urban Lahore, these families were resolute in their distrust
5+ day, 10+ hour ago (917+ words) How two CSOs and an Islamic scholar helped 24 wary families find faith in immunisation. If you would like to republish this article, please follow these steps: use the HTML below; do not edit the text; include the author's byline; credit…...
As a parent, you cannot relax: a polio outbreak urges action across Malawi
6+ day, 9+ hour ago (1008+ words) One child has been paralysed in the polio outbreak declared this January, but authorities hope a robust national vaccination campaign is enough to halt the spread. If you would like to republish this article, please follow these steps: use the…...