Nalova Akua

Nalova Akua is a Cameroonian journalist who has worked as a staff reporter for print, audiovisual and digital editions of local daily newspapers and international news agencies, and has featured in media outlets including Zenger News Service, The Epoch Times, Euronews Green, and BBC Future Planet.

Twitter: @AkuaNalova

In Cameroon, the game of vaccine catch-up is both a sprint and a marathon

Successive catch-up campaigns have made progress at reaching the cohort of ultra-vulnerable, unvaccinated kids that swelled amid Cameroon’s COVID-19 crisis. But health workers say the finish line remains elusive.

1 Oct 2025

5 min read

Zero-dose children

In Akwaya, in Cameroon’s South-West region, mothers wait with their children to be vaccinated during the catch-up campaign, held from 31 July to 4 August 2025. Credit: Oben Pamela epse Besong

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Community health workers distribute supplies to populations in Cameroon’s Far North to combat cholera. Credit: Integrated Health Centre of Douggoï

Cholera in Cameroon: when climate disaster unleashes an epidemic

6 Feb 2025

7 min read

Cholera Climate change

Helen Akono with one of her twins during the malaria vaccine introduction in Cameroon, a year ago. Credit: Gavi/2024/Go'tham Industry

Cameroon’s historic malaria vaccine introduction shows signs of success, one year on

21 Jan 2025

9 min read

Malaria Spotlight on malaria

Vaccinators use canoes to get to hard-to-reach areas to administer polio vaccines during Cameroon’s Big Catch-Up campaign. Credit: EPI Cameroon

Cameroon’s Big Catch-up is a mountain to climb

5 Dec 2024

7 min read

Spotlight on zero-dose children Zero-dose children

Dr Tchokfe Shalom Ndoula, Permanent Secretary of the Expanded Programme on Immunization in Cameroon. Credit: Nalova Akua

Half a century of EPI in Cameroon: Dr Tchokfe Shalom Ndoula takes stock

5 Jun 2024

6 min read

Routine immunisation Zero-dose children

Children in Djoum district, southern Cameroon, hold up their vaccination cards after receiving the yellow fever vaccine. Credit : Zok Medjo Garrick Lionel

Cameroon hits back at yellow fever

15 May 2024

8 min read

Yellow fever Spotlight on stockpiles

Sherika Joan and other community health workers cross River Myrin to administer vaccines to Cameroonian children. Credit: Bernyuy Denis

In rural Cameroon, community health workers are a vital bridge to care

8 Mar 2024

3 min read

International Women's Day Health worker heroes Routine immunisation

Rosine Djanfan, a maintenance worker, with her child in Yaoundé. Credit: Gavi/2024/Go'tham Industry

A turning point: Cameroon rolls out world’s first malaria vaccine

22 Jan 2024

8 min read

Zoonotic awareness at Libassa Wildlife Sanctuary in Liberia. Credit: Libassa Wildlife Sanctuary

African countries step up the fight against zoonotic disease

13 Dec 2023

7 min read

Outbreaks Pandemic preparedness

A local administrative official launches a polio vaccination campaign in Cameroon's capital, Yaounde, on 22 September. Credit: EPI Cameroon

Cameroon launches new offensive against variant type-2 poliovirus

23 Oct 2023

6 min read

Health workers disinfect a cholera treatment centre in South West Cameroon. Credit: Filbert Eko Eko

Tackling Cameroon’s worst cholera outbreak in decades

13 Apr 2022

5 min read

Cameroonians watch the opening match of the 2021 AFCON tournament, pitting the Stallions of Burkina Faso against the host nation, the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon, in a fan zone in Yaounde. – Credit: Nalova Akua

How Cameroon is making the Africa Cup of Nations COVID-safe

24 Jan 2022

5 min read

Members of the Cameroon Community Media Network receive COVID-19 preventive kits from donors – Credit: Roseline Obah

Journalists fighting the pandemic: Cameroon's COVID-19 unsung heroes

29 Nov 2021

4 min read

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