“It is my calling” – in rural Nigeria, a community health worker is a medic, teacher, carer, mobiliser and more 8 Mar 2024 10 min read verified International Women's DayHealth worker heroes
In Zimbabwe, a community health worker is not only, and not least, a shoulder to cry on 7 Mar 2024 5 min read verified Health worker heroesInternational Women's Day
Herd(er) immunity: anthrax vaccine blunts seasonal outbreak in Zimbabwe 28 Feb 2024 6 min read verified One healthClimate changeOutbreaks
Medics in the firing line: Nigerian health workers tell stories of courage 22 Feb 2024 8 min read verified Health worker heroesConflict & humanitarian
Zimbabwe’s battle to control a skin-burrowing worm faces a new challenge: climate change 3 Jan 2024 6 min read verified Climate change
This Nigerian's campaign for the HPV jab is a fight against more than cancer 23 Nov 2023 7 min read verified HPVVideos
Nigeria’s HPV jab roll-out gathers momentum as wary mothers come aboard 20 Nov 2023 8 min read verified HPV
Nigerian girls look forward to roll-out of cancer-blocking jab 20 Oct 2023 6 min read verified HPVRoutine immunisation
“None of her granddaughters will have to experience this”: Cervical cancer in Nigeria 4 Oct 2023 7 min read verified HPV
How Zimbabwe is protecting women – and their children – from cervical cancer 14 Sep 2023 5 min read verified HPV
"I do not want them to end up like me": Abuja mothers with disabilities defy odds to get their children immunised 18 Aug 2023 5 min read verified LeprosyMeaslesTetanus
How a Lagos community built on a garbage dump learned to keep safe from disease 11 Jul 2023 8 min read verified MalariaTyphoidCholera
Community-based feeding centres are giving starving children a shot at life in Nigeria’s Katsina 22 Jun 2023 6 min read verified Conflict & humanitarian
Retired nurses turn reinforcements at short-staffed Lagos health facilities 20 Jun 2023 6 min read verified
After three outbreaks, Zimbabwe is on high alert to curtail cholera 25 May 2023 5 min read verified CholeraOutbreaks