Rita Zabo lost her son to bilharzia (schistosomiasis). She’s determined to persuade her neighbours of the value of the government’s mass drug campaigns against the parasite. From Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.
In Sokoto State, Nigeria, a group of polio survivors is turning personal pain into powerful advocacy. From Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.
Physician, researcher and social media star Erlina Burhan says helping the public understand TB is the necessary next step to the killer disease’s elimination. From Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.
Since the pandemic caused immunisation rates to plunge, diphtheria cases have spiked in Nigeria. Health workers like Maryam Umar are racing to bring the population’s immune defences back up to par. From Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.
Breast and cervical cancers account for nearly a third of all cancer diagnoses in Bangladeshi women – and mortality rates have been way higher than Dr Habibullah Talukder Ruskin is willing to accept. From Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.