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Features from VaccinesWork’s team of writers across the world, telling the stories behind the headlines.

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Screening and testing pregnant women for Hepatitis B is one of the interventions by the government to prevent the spread of the disease. Photo: Hepatitis Aid Organization

Tackling stigma and misinformation to beat back hepatitis B in Uganda

5 May 2022

4 min read

Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu, First Lady of Ondo State (first left, with officials during a SOLAYO ceremony). Credit: James Adekola

First Ladies in Nigeria help boost routine immunisation

2 May 2022

3 min read

Routine immunisation

Malaria ends with me: Sierra Leone celebrates World Malaria Day

29 Apr 2022

5 min read

Malaria

Nurses delivering Covishield Vaccinations to local vaccination points, in the Sundarbans, India. Gavi/2022/Benedikt v.Loebell

Stormy weather: boat-borne vaccines ferry a dose of hope to the Sundarbans

28 Apr 2022

4 min read

Climate change COVID-19 Innovation

School-based targeting increases HPV vaccination rates

26 Apr 2022

4 min read

Gender equality HPV

Health workers march against polio

21 Apr 2022

5 min read

Cross-posts Polio Zero-dose children

Pandemic life on the Delhi Metro

21 Apr 2022

4 min read

COVID-19

A child receives the polio vaccine. Picture credit: UNICEF Malawi

Malawian polio case prompts mass vaccination campaign

20 Apr 2022

4 min read

Polio Vaccine campaigns Vaccine safety

Mothers bring their children for vaccination but it's mostly the older girls/ siblings holding the babies. Credit: Huma Khawar

The female bridge: How a new link in the healthcare chain helps vaccines reach kids in under-immunised Lakki Marwat

19 Apr 2022

6 min read

Zero-dose children Routine immunisation Gender equality

H.E. Madame Antoinette Tchibota Sassou-Nguesso, First Lady of the Republic of Congo, President of the Organization of African First Ladies for Development. Credit: OPDAD

To improve access to vaccination, let’s reduce gender inequalities

19 Apr 2022

5 min read

Zero-dose children Routine immunisation Gender equality

Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba inaugurated the TCV campaign at Kathmandu's Durbar High School – the oldest school in the country. Photo credit: Bijay Rai

Vaccine reaches Nepal’s provinces just in time for typhoid season

14 Apr 2022

5 min read

Typhoid Vaccine campaigns Antimicrobial resistance

Vaccinators on their way to a session. Photo credit: WHO

Stopping cholera before it can start: vaccines reach South Sudan’s flood-hit IDP camps

13 Apr 2022

4 min read

Cholera

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