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Articles explaining the facts behind immunisation and vaccines.

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Hand holding a vaccine vial. Graphic designed by Svet Slavchev, incorporating stock elements.

How combining vaccines saves money and lives

20 Mar 2025

12 min read

Professor Liam Smeeth, Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Six rules to tackle health misinformation

28 Feb 2025

7 min read

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A community health worker prepares the malaria vaccine in a syringe for a child at a health centre in southern Côte d'Ivoire, July 2024. Credit: Gavi/2024/Miléquêm Diarassouba

How effective are malaria vaccines?

29 Jul 2024

6 min read

Malaria Explainer

A mother with her baby talking to a nurse at a health clinic in Kampala, Uganda. Credit: Gavi/2024/Jjumba Martin

Global immunisation in 2023: 7 things you need to know

15 Jul 2024

4 min read

Data Explainer Routine immunisation

Evaluating Gavi’s strategies, policies and programmes: what lessons can be drawn from Gavi’s Annual Evaluation Report 2023?

24 Jun 2024

4 min read

Explainer Routine immunisation Zero-dose children

Sania Nishtar visits an immunisation session in Central African Republic during her first visit to a Gavi implementing country. Credit: Pascal Barollier/Gavi/2024

Sania Nishtar: thoughts and priorities from my first ten days in charge of Gavi

5 Apr 2024

4 min read

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A session during the Gavi 6.0 conference in Togo. Credit: Nipah Dennis

Eight recommendations to shape the future of immunisation

4 Apr 2024

5 min read

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Whether caused by a tickle in your throat or an infection in your lungs, coughing helps to protect the airways. It can also be a strategy used by pathogens to spread disease, scientists have discovered. Credit: Esther Aarts

New views of a cough: From TB and chronic cough to hope for Parkinson’s

14 Mar 2024

9 min read

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HPV vaccine to prevent cervical cancer is administrated to school children at Matipula Primary School in Lusaka, Zambia. Credit: Gavi/2023/Peter Caton

How Gavi decides which vaccines to invest in

23 Feb 2024

5 min read

Explainer Vaccine development

The pandemic exposed and accelerated the cracks in health systems, and, as these latest figures show, this has set back progress towards safer pregnancy in the UK by decades.

Maternal death rates in the UK have increased to levels not seen for almost 20 years – experts explain why

19 Feb 2024

5 min read

Cross-posts Gender equality Explainer

Surgeons in operation gowns analyzing an X-ray report.

Vaccines show promise against common chronic diseases

15 Jan 2024

9 min read

Vaccine development Explainer

Everything you need to know about Gavi's incoming CEO, Dr Sania Nishtar

11 Jan 2024

4 min read

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