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The state of the world’s sanitation
To achieve universal sanitation, we need greater investment and higher rates of sanitation coverage.
How India is using a digital track and trace system to ensure COVID-19 vaccines reach everyone
A system originally designed to do real-time monitoring of vaccine supply chains in India has now been adapted to help ensure COVID-19 vaccines reach as many people as possible.
Grab, jab and release: keeping rabies off the streets of Goa
The global effort to contain COVID-19 risks disrupting campaigns against other diseases. Will the fight to control the deadly rabies virus in India be among them?
Why is India’s COVID-19 pandemic skyrocketing?
When the pandemic started, India defied expectations by having a milder outbreak than had been predicted. Now, it is seeing a deadly second wave that is bringing the country’s health system to its knees – so what is behind this, and how much is…
Reaching zero-dose children in Rajasthan
9.7 million children in 57 Gavi-supported countries remain unvaccinated and at risk. Why are these children missing out? In Bikaner, Rajasthan, VaccinesWork meets two families who simply never landed on the health system’s radar.
COVID-19 in India: an unfolding humanitarian crisis
Stories of reaching herd immunity were certainly premature.
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India completes national introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine
Over 90% of children born in India every year will have access to the vaccine thanks to the efforts of the Government of India, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and partners, who collaborated on the nationwide introduction of PCV into the country’s…
Gavi and Government of India establish new partnership to protect millions of children by 2026
Gavi will provide US$ 250 million in funding to reach zero-dose children – those who have not received a single routine vaccine shot – through a renewed strategic partnership with the Government of India
‘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.
Gavi and Asian Development Bank sign new partnership to boost health financing for immunisation
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Gavi sign a new cooperation agreement to help countries expand immunisation coverage and strengthen health systems.