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.
As Gavi turns 25, the first cohort of “Gavi babies” are coming of age, and helping to shape their communities and their countries.
As 93% of eligible children are reached in an outbreak-hit part of Malawi, health workers laud parents for understanding that “the vaccines are life-saving”. From Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.
Making sure all at-risk children can access the vaccine is proving to be the key to a steeply falling prevalence of the chronic infection. From Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.