When polio reappeared in Gaza in 2024 after a 25-year absence, four women working for the Ministry of Health and WHO — navigating bombed roads, displacement, and personal loss — led vaccination campaigns that reached hundreds of thousands of children amid active conflict.
A single dose of three tablets. No hospital stay. Free to patients. After two decades of collaborative research across Africa and Europe, DNDi and Sanofi have developed a new oral treatment for sleeping sickness that has cleared a major regulatory hurdle. The WHO’s 2030 elimination target now looks achievable.
Dr. Hadiza Galadanci, an OB-GYN and researcher in Kano, Nigeria, has spent decades confronting one of global health’s most persistent failures: women dying in childbirth from causes doctors already know how to treat.
Needle-free jet injectors are transforming polio vaccination in Afghanistan, eliminating fear and building trust among families who previously hesitated—and helping bring one of the world’s last polio-endemic countries closer to eradication. From the Global Polio Eradication Initiative
Egypt has eliminated trachoma, an infectious eye disease, as a public health problem, the seventh country in the Eastern Mediterranean Region to do so, with the support of many regional and international partners.