Burkina Faso suffers a “deplorable” annual death toll from malaria, with clinics and hospitals filled to overwhelm during the worst season. Health workers, parents and leaders hope that burden is about to ease.
With more than 2,000 pieces of new, upgraded equipment slotting into and expanding Kenya’s sprawling vaccine supply chain, hope grows that unreached children will gain reliable access to immunisation.
New commitment will help vaccinate 370 million children against polio every year over five years, preventing paralysis and even death, and strengthen health systems to achieve and sustain a polio-free world.
Gavi, working with the International Rescue Committee (IRC), has administered one million doses of life-saving vaccines to children living in fragile and conflict-affected areas across Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan and South Sudan.
Gavi’s Board today approved the establishment of the African Vaccine Manufacturing Accelerator (AVMA), a financing instrument that will make up to US$ 1 billion available to support sustainable vaccine manufacturing in Africa.
The Government of Togo will introduce the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine its into routine immunisation system to prevent cervical cancer on Monday, 4 December 2023. Several other local partners, and the private health sector, are supporting this high impact immunisation milestone.
Drone delivery of vaccines has helped immunisation programmes in remote parts of Ghana’s Western North region bounce back faster than average from the pandemic’s impact, new research says. VaccinesWork visited the Zipline regional hub to find out more.