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Children in fragile states missing out on lifesaving vaccines
New vaccination figures show millions more children being immunised in world’s poorest countries.
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Understanding urban challenges in Uganda
In the first of this series, we look at the highlights of an evaluation to determine the potential barriers to immunisation caused by the increase in urbanisation.
“Don’t use COVID-19 as an excuse not to immunize your children, you will regret it.”
Janet, mother of twins, tells fellow mothers.
Health workers use special days to reach every child with life-saving vaccines
Not even the COVID-19 pandemic will stop them.
Protecting Uganda’s overstretched health workers through COVAX
Over 50 health workers in Uganda have lost their lives to COVID-19 – a huge toll for a country with just 0.17 doctors per thousand people in some areas. With remaining health workers overworked and vulnerable, some relief has come in the form of…
The community health workers getting people vaccinated in Uganda
As Community Health Workers, Harriet Nankwanzi and Yusuf Maganda have built personal relationships with people in their communities who have over the years relied on their services to access vital health information.
Keeping routine immunisation going during Uganda’s second lockdown
Despite a second lockdown, outreach initiatives ensure continuation of Uganda’s routine child immunisation.
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UK-donated COVID-19 vaccine doses reach African countries
The first AstraZeneca doses donated to COVAX by the United Kingdom (UK) will soon arrive in Angola, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Senegal and Uganda, with Zambia and DRC set to be the first to receive these UK-donated vaccines…
Gavi launches new learning initiative to address the final barriers to immunisation equity
Reaching the millions of “zero-dose” children who have yet to receive a single vaccine represents one of the final – and most complex – barriers to overcome in the push for global immunisation equity
‘The Big Catch-up’ is an extended effort to lift vaccination levels among children to at least pre-pandemic levels and endeavours to exceed those.
Twelve countries across different regions in Africa are set to receive 18 million doses of the first-ever malaria vaccine over the next two years.
Uganda Minister of Health receives and flags off malaria vaccines to 105 districts
Distribution of 2.278 million doses of malaria vaccines to 105 districts with high and moderate transmission across Uganda, marking a major milestone in the country’s fight against malaria.
Uganda launches largest malaria vaccine introduction to date
Today, Uganda’s Ministry of Health, with support from Gavi and Alliance partners, UNICEF, the WHO, PATH and CHAI rolled out a malaria vaccination campaign in Apac District, northern Uganda.
