Masaai women traditionally trusted to guide and protect mothers in childbirth are shepherding younger girls to safety from cervical cancer. Local health administrators say they see an uptick in vaccination rates where the “Olkinyi” are at work.…

A nationwide study suggests infections with human papillomavirus (HPV) types 16 and 18 have been virtually eliminated since vaccination began in 2008 – protecting even unvaccinated women.

In 2022, nearly two thirds of the Togolese people diagnosed with cancer died. Vaccination can help change those figures, say Ministry of Health officials.

Once terrified by a “strange disease”, the displaced people residing in Gubio town in Borno State, Nigeria, have learned that cholera can be controlled.  

Targeting sugars on the outside of viruses could offer a first line of defence against emerging pandemics.

Reducing any friction in getting a vaccine and adding social ‘nudges’ could mean fewer health workers skip vaccines for flu or COVID-19.

Malawi is free of the paralysing virus again. What exactly does that mean for the country and for the disease’s young victims?

Many of Africa’s most powerful innovations are not being measured correctly.

Bacteria may carry a ‘memory’ of past environments that they pass down through generations, creating subpopulations that resist treatment.