Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance

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When floods devastated Pakistan this summer, health workers faced an impossible choice: postpone a historic vaccine campaign or push forward against all odds. 🇵🇰 What happened next shows the true power of determination. Pakistan became the 151st country to introduce the HPV vaccine, protecting girls from cervical cancer even as communities rebuilt from disaster. "Despite these challenges, we are trying our best to make this campaign successful." - Shagufta Tasneem, Health Supervisor Watch how frontline heroes turned crisis into hope. 🩵

Kenya’s Mombasa County has deployed 2,400 community health providers to help tackle the county’s third outbreak of the mosquito-borne Chikungunya virus. Here’s why early detection and warning systems are critical in the race to contain this threat:

Nearly half of food and water consumed by children under 5 in Uganda's Karamoja region is contaminated with drug-resistant Salmonella. A new study reveals an urgent health crisis in one of the country's poorest areas. http://bit.ly/4niGn44 via SciDev .Net

5,000 health workers from 60+ countries met online to figure out the causes of vaccine hesitancy in their communities. Some key takeaways: 1️⃣ The problem isn't necessarily what communities know. It's what the system has done to lose their trust.  2️⃣ Equity means designing services WITH communities, not just making them "available."  3️⃣ When communities own the solution, they show up.  4️⃣ Respect and collaboration is the key to building bridges. Swipe to hear more insights from a summit of 5,000 health workers from The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF): http://bit.ly/4ndl9V9 

In Harare, Zimbabwe, youth health ambassadors are changing how young people learn about the HPV vaccine by using the same slang, the same platforms and the same trust networks as their peers. The result? More girls getting protected against cervical cancer and a new generation leading the conversation on health. Read more: http://bit.ly/4oraqHL

The African continent carries 25% of the world’s disease burden, but produces just 3% of global medicines. When COVID-19 hit and exporters restricted supplies, African hospitals ran out of critical treatments. It was a wake-up call, and the continent is finally responding. The full story: http://bit.ly/495So9l via The Conversation UK

What are combination vaccines, and why do they matter now more than ever? Marta Tufet Bayona sketches it out. ✍️

Congratulations to Bangladesh for launching the *largest ever* typhoid conjugate vaccine campaign, which aims to protect 50 million children! This historic step will provide lifelong protection against deadly typhoid fever: https://bit.ly/3J7Dl4j UNICEF Bangladesh WHO Bangladesh “This campaign demonstrates Bangladesh's commitment to protecting its most vulnerable, such as children and young adolescents, who are at the highest risk of the disease. Gavi and partners will continue to support the strengthening of Bangladesh’s routine immunisation, which serves as a model for other high-burden countries planning to launch the typhoid vaccine in the next five years” - Gavi’s Dirk Gehl. 

🚨A new AI model can forecast malnutrition rates in Kenya with 89% accuracy one month in advance and provide up to 6 months of lead time for intervention. This could save countless lives by getting resources to at-risk areas before crisis hits. Here's how it works 👉 http://bit.ly/4n1oer6 via The Conversation UK