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A shot at a healthy future
In global health terms it is hard to find a more striking yardstick with which to measure inequality. Of the 275,000 women who die from the cervical cancer every year more than 85% are in the world’s...
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Vaccine delivery: the next grand challenge
Live-saving vaccines can be developed and funding can be found to provide them to the world’s poorest countries. But if the vaccines do not arrive intact and at the right temperature it is all for...
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Major investment in global fight against measles & rubella
Lions Clubs International, a volunteer-based organisation, has pledged US$30 million to a global campaign to vaccinate children against measles and rubella. The donation to the GAVI Alliance will be...
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Development funding: Why invest in vaccines?
With so many competing priorities for development funding, health advocates are stressing the value of immunisation in protecting not just health but also income and savings, and as a stimulus for...
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17 Countries Gather to Share Immunisation Financing Progress
Immunisation is one of the most cost-effective ways to improve public health and to accelerate development progress. Every year, vaccines save the lives of approximately 1.5 million children and...
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WHO green light for Japanese encephalitis vaccine
A vaccine to protect children against Japanese encephalitis (JE) has been ‘prequalified’ by the World Health Organization (WHO), potentially making it accessible to millions more children in Asia....
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Babushka midwives, bearing the burden
Despite serving as a health worker for more than three decades and being the proud Babushka of 23 grandchildren, Sanovar Partieva still cannot bear the tears and cries of a newborn baby receiving its...
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Fewer children dying from preventable diseases
Child survival is strongly linked to access to vaccines, according to a leading expert in global health. In this video, Professor Hans Rosling, Professor of International Health at the Karolinska...
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How to save six million lives by 2020
Giving the world’s poorest people access to vaccines can prevention millions of deaths, according to the GAVI Alliance – a public-private partnership funded by governments, philanthropists and...
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Bringing vaccines to the world’s poorest children
At the beginning of the 21st century there was a growing conviction that vaccinations were one of the most cost-effective ways of advancing global health. What happened next changed millions of lives....
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World leaders back vaccines for poorest children
Governments and philanthropists have promised to immunise a further 300 million children as part of a global effort to save 6 million more lives by 2020. At the Gavi Pledging Conference in Berlin this...
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7 reasons I love Bill Gates
I love Bill Gates. There, I said it. Yes, he’s a nerd with a love of science and technology – but that only makes him more interesting. Gates changed the world once by helping to make home computers a...
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Tips for immunisation advocacy
Think, Plan, Create, Act, Assess. These are the five steps to delivering effective immunisation advocacy, according to a new website. The Advocacy for Immunisation portal has been developed by PATH and...
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Will Zuckerberg put fortune into vaccines?
‘Doctor’s visit — time for vaccines!’ Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg took his baby daughter, Max, for her first vaccines this week. Is this a sign he is about to use his vast wealth to boost...
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Vaccines save lives – and money
A new study says every dollar spent on vaccination saves up to $44 dollars by reducing healthcare spending and productivity loss, and curbing the broader economic impact of illness. Immunisation...
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Vaccine transport: are drones the answer?
Delivering vaccines to people in some parts of the world is a major challenge. Now drones – small unmanned aircraft – are being deployed to help solve the problem. Vaccines can be sensitive to...
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