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Gavi's impact in Africa since 2000
Gavi’s mission is to save lives and protect people’s health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines. Our work is driven by country needs and priorities. Gavi supports countries to strengthen primary health care (PHC) through…
Global Impact, as fiscal sponsor for the VaxSocial Initiative is pleased to announce the selection of seven organizations that will receive funding totaling US$ 8.5 million though VaxSocial – an initiative focused on demonstrating how social…
One year of the Big Catch-Up: what progress has been made?
On 24 April 2024, on a warm Wednesday morning in Antananarivo, Madagascar became one of the latest Gavi countries to formally commence the roll-out of the ‘Big Catch-Up’. How did we get here?
Tanzania’s “big catch-up” gains ground
In the global effort to get immunisation back on track post-pandemic, the east African nation has emerged as a frontrunner.
Dozens of people in Argentina are critically ill with ‘atypical’ pneumonia. But this is unlikely to be another pandemic looming.
The Viral Most Wanted: The Hantaviruses
The Hantavirus that was identified in the 1993 in an outbreak in New Mexico and is also known as Sin Nombre Virus – Spanish for “the virus with no name”.
The vaccine cold chain: A history
It's been true since Edward Jenner's day: finding a vaccine is just the first step. Getting it out into the world demands a lot more problem-solving.
Africa Vaccination Week is an annual event established 13 years ago and endorsed by African Union member states. It presents a unique opportunity for countries in the Africa region to campaign for strengthened and effective immunisation delivery…
In Ethiopia’s Afar region, a change of messenger boosts immunisation uptake
A project to recruit and train religious leaders to deliver information on vaccination has made strides, health workers say, among a population renowned for hesitancy.
From the pain of Ebola to the passion to fight Lassa
Donald Grant is the young scientist who stepped up to finish the work of his mentor who died from Ebola. He is now rebuilding the research programme on Lassa fever in Sierra Leone.
New commitment will help vaccinate 370 million children against polio every year over five years, preventing paralysis and even death, and strengthen health systems to achieve and sustain a polio-free world.
WHO and France convene high-level meeting to defeat meningitis
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…
