Despite severe fuel shortages and power cuts, Burundi's #measles vaccination campaign has achieved over 90% of its target. Here’s how they’ve faced the challenges head on:
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Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance is a public-private partnership that helps vaccinate half the world’s children against some of the world’s deadliest diseases. Since its inception in 2000, Gavi has helped to immunise a whole generation – over 1 billion children – and prevented more than 17.3 million future deaths, helping to halve child mortality in 78 lower-income countries.
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Good news! Average life expectancy in Sub-Saharan Africa jumped from 56 years in 2010 to 61 years in 2023 thanks to progress made against #HIV/AIDS, according to a global United Nations report. But the fight isn’t over. Read more: Via SciDev.Net
HIV progress raises life expectancy in Africa - UN
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Bangladesh has seen a 96% decline in malaria deaths in the years since 2008 and is now eyeing complete elimination by 2027. Can they do it? Read more:
Bangladesh is gunning for zero malaria deaths by 2027
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Whether it’s organising a ‘vaccination festival’ or employing a community-based drama group to perform skits, health workers across Nigeria will stop at nothing to raise awareness of the lifesaving importance of immunisation: Via The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF)
Nigerian health workers to share what works in a country-wide 'collaborative'
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"We're making staggering progress, and that shouldn’t be understated." -- Vinny Smith. Discover the strides being made against #meningitis and what still needs to be done: Meningitis Research Foundation
"We could save millions of lives lost to meningitis – but we need more awareness and better funding"
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Vaccination rates against measles stalled in 2023, leaving nearly 35 million children with no or only partial protection. Read the Measles & Rubella Partnership’s call for urgent global action to address this “significant threat”:
Urgent Action is Needed as Global Immunization Progress Stalls - Measles & Rubella Partnership
https://measlesrubellapartnership.org
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Chimpanzees in Uganda’s Budongo Forest have started eating bat excrement, which was found to contain 27 infectious viruses, including viruses related to SARS-CoV-2. Could this lead to human epidemics?
Could chimps eating bat guano lead to human epidemics?
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“If you think about vaccinating 1000 children and averting 17.4 deaths, [#HPV is] one of the most impactful vaccines that we have available. We’ve invested over $600m; by the end of 2025 we’re aiming to reach 86 million girls to really be able to turn the tide on vaccination coverage” - Aurélia Nguyen:
Latin America is catching up on HPV vaccination and screening
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Syria has launched its second round of #BigCatchUp vaccination campaign to reach ∼two million children under the age of five who missed out on lifesaving vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic! We’re proudly working with UNICEF and World Health Organization to support these efforts: “The Big Catch-Up initiative in Syria is not only an opportunity to immunise and protect all children up to 5 years old, including zero-dose children, but is also aimed at strengthening routine immunisation from planning to service delivery and to monitoring systems” - Gavi’s Véronique Maeva Fages. #VaccinesWork
The Big Catch-Up: Syria rolls out initiative to reach millions of children missed during COVID-19 pandemic
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95% of Zimbabweans know their HIV status. That means that the more than a million people living with the virus can manage the risk from other dangerous infections, like #TB and #HPV.
In Zimbabwe, progress on HIV management is also helping protect patients from other deadly threats
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