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Eyes wide open: community awareness is Nigeria’s best prophylactic against sleeping sickness

Human African trypanosomiasis is a stealthy killer. But persistent efforts to educate at-risk communities are paying off, finds Adetokunbo Abiola in Delta State. 

Poliovirus found in wastewater in Spain, Germany and Poland – what you need to know

Herd immunity will protect people in those countries for now, but this is a concerning find.

Unitaid and Gavi establish new partnership to improve access to cervical cancer prevention

Unitaid and Gavi will pilot integrated cervical cancer screening and treatment with HPV vaccination programs through a new partnership. 

How you can avoid catching the latest COVID-19 variants this Christmas

Cases of the KP.3.1.1. and XEC variants of COVID-19 are rising in many countries, but there are ways to avoid catching them.

How Kenya is bringing primary care closer to the community

Distance is a killer. In Kenya, a new push to extend clinic networks intends to make sure each child is within just 5 km of basic care.

A Platform for Action: Civil Society and Parliamentarians Unite for Health Equity in Zambia, Kenya and Sierra Leone

In a landmark event co-organized by the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (PMNCH) and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, a group of civil society organizations (CSOs) and parliamentarians from Zambia, Kenya, and Sierra Leone came…

Mpox continues to menace Burundi

Children in the region are worst-affected, and survivors report struggling with social stigma, but recent reports suggest spread may be plateauing.

Finding new ways to engage communities in vaccinations in Kenya

Q&A with Lillyan Mutua about the challenges she encounters in her efforts to increase the uptake of the HPV vaccine and the importance of storytelling to spread awareness.

Bangladesh embraces HPV vaccination

Millions of adolescent girls from seven divisions of Bangladesh are joining their peers in the Dhaka Division for the second phase of the lifesaving human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination campaigns.

Last updated: 21 Nov 2019

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