Building on news of Nigeria successfully rolling out a new, safe and highly effective vaccine, which targets five major strains of bacterial meningitis in Africa, leaders committed to implement the global roadmap for “Defeating Meningitis by 2030…

A health worker in Malawi sees the impact of the new malaria vaccine first hand.

Images captured by workers on the vaccination frontlines tell a complex, kaleidoscopic story.

From 24–30 April 2024, the African continent commences the commemoration of the  African Vaccination Week (AVW), which takes place annually in the last week of April.

Read all the news, explainers and features from our VaccinesWork writers on the historic roll-out of the world's first malaria vaccine.

Global immunization efforts have saved more than 150 million lives over the past half-century. On the 50th anniversary of the World Health Organization's Essential Programme on Immunization, it is worth celebrating these remarkable results and…

Since 2017, Pakistani children have been getting vaccinated against the major cause of deadly diarrhoea. Health leaders and workers say the effects are evident – even if there’s further to go. 

Patterns of artemisinin resistance in South-East Asia are being detected across Africa, threatening a “ticking time bomb” of malaria deaths.

In a significant step forward for malaria prevention in Africa, three countries – Benin, Liberia and Sierra Leone – today launched a large-scale rollout of the life-saving malaria vaccine targeting millions of children across the three West…

In a major effort to protect children's health, the Lao PDR Ministry of Health announced a nationwide measles and rubella vaccination campaign today. 

An analysis of the impact of 50 years of the global vaccine programme shows the extraordinary value of vaccination.

The mosquitoes that spread malaria are expanding their geographic distributions because of warming temperatures and altered rainfall patterns.