In remote communities across Mali, Red Cross volunteers are overcoming immense obstacles to find zero-dose and under-vaccinated children and put them on a path to a safe and healthy future.

It’s a disease of poverty with alarming symptoms and the risk of grave outcomes. But learning how to prevent and treat bilharzia helped this Ondo community find a new sense of confidence in the face of a parasitic scourge.

Climate change is spurring a spike in the mosquito-borne virus, which can cause chronic and debilitating joint and muscle pain.

5,000 health workers met online to figure out what lay beneath vaccine hesitancy in their communities. Here are some of their insights.

Younger voices are better heard by their peers, say health workers campaigning for improved HPV vaccine uptake.

Dorothy Kirunda is what she has to be: a health provider, counsellor, social justice campaigner, witness, teacher, engine of charity and adoptive mother.

Massive turnout for the mpox vaccine is slowing the spread of the virus in the northern Nigerian city, raising hopes among residents after weeks of alarm.

The online rumour-mill sowed doubts among Pakistani parents, but an energetic effort to build trust paid off, with more than 9 million girls now protected from cervical cancer.

The Malawian nurse-midwife has vaccines, determination and one small, very unreliable vehicle on her side.

In Maiduguri, northern Nigeria, one vaccinator knew that the deluge carried more than the risk of drowning – it brought deadly disease.

It was always going to be hard to spur HPV vaccine uptake in Tamlega, an isolated, conservative village with an unimpressive record on vaccination. But the three-person staff of the tiny local dispensary has driven a hope-inspiring turnaround.

As I left Harare Hospital, I knew that my life was never going to be the same after meningitis. I had lost my eyesight, but to this day I have never allowed myself to lose my sense of humour.