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Charlotte Mbuh

From offering access to pursuing equity

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

15 Oct 2025

5 min read

With the help of a megaphone, Rahuma Namata mobilises the community to encourage attendance at a vaccination session. She volunteers as part of the Zero-dose Immunization Program (ZIP) programme. Credit: Gavi/2024/Jjumba Martin

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As a frontline immunisation worker, Irin Taher Piku, 29, bravely faces the challenges of each day, encouraging people to get vaccinated and providing other health information. She hopes to continue working at the grassroots level where people need health workers like her who can explain everything with patience and care. Credit: Gavi/Ashraful Arefin

Health beyond bias: frontline workers tackle prejudice in medical care

8 Apr 2025

7 min read

Zero-dose children Gender equality

To make drug prescription accurate and easy, village health teams like Fatuma use a smart health app in their assessments. Credit: Living Goods/2022/Jjumba Martin

WhatsApp, Doc? Health workers in Africa deploy ordinary apps to make an extraordinary difference

10 Dec 2024

4 min read

Innovation

A health worker carries a portable cooler for vaccines after completing a day of vaccinations as part of the Reach Zero Dose Children (ZDC) campaign in Somalia. Credit: Gavi/2024/Mohamed Abdihakim Ali

How do you reach the urban hard-to-reach? Ask these health workers

2 Dec 2024

6 min read

Spotlight on zero-dose children Zero-dose children

Adan Mohammed, 6 months, about to receive the malaria vaccine, Sudan 2024. Credit: Ahmed Mohamdeen Elfatih

Malaria control: a turning point in history?

26 Nov 2024

6 min read

Malaria Spotlight on malaria Vaccine development

Amino Sidow holding her child after vaccination during the Reach Zero Dose Children (ZDC) campaign in Somalia, 2024. Credit: Gavi/2024/Mohamed Abdihakim Ali

EPI at 50: hard problems, simple solutions?

14 Nov 2024

6 min read

Routine immunisation Zero-dose children

A health worker carries a portable cooler for vaccines after completing a day of vaccinations. Credit: Gavi/2024/Mohamed Abdihakim Ali

Climate change: how experience-sharing is opening health workers' eyes

29 Oct 2024

6 min read

Climate change

NASA visualisation of projected global temperatures by the year year 2100. Credit: Stuart Rankin/Flickr

Health in a heating world

17 Oct 2024

6 min read

Climate change

A girl waits while a health worker prepares HPV vaccine during an immunisation session Nigeria. Credit: Gavi/2023/Latitude Space Africa

What lies beneath: 'root cause analysis' sheds new light on immunisation barriers across Nigeria

9 Aug 2024

4 min read

Routine immunisation

A health worker prepares the HPV vaccine during a mass vaccination campaign in Nigeria in 2023. Credit: Gavi/2023/Latitude Space Africa

Nigerian health workers to share what works in a country-wide 'collaborative'

22 Jul 2024

5 min read

Routine immunisation

Climate change not only affects the weather, it can also have a big impact on health and health systems. Credit: Anna Shvets on Pexels

Climate change and health: a perma-polycrisis

13 Jun 2024

5 min read

Climate change

Credit: Brigitte Meugang / Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030

Parasites in your pelvis: breaking the silence on female genital schistosomiasis

22 May 2024

5 min read

Gender equality

Moussa Traoré during a polio vaccination session in Tongo Tongo village, Douentza distric, Mali. Credit: The Geneva Learning Foundation

Saluting the immunisation workforce

26 Apr 2024

3 min read

Health worker heroes

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