Tag: Vaccines

Made in Africa: How Kenya, South Africa are reversing vaccine dependency

For decades the continent consumed what others produced. A billion-dollar facility in South Africa…

Your baby’s first vaccines: The questions every new parent asks, answered

Private ‘baby-friendly’ vaccines get most of the attention. But Kenya's public immunisation programme…

The Big Catch-Up: How the biggest vaccine drive in history found zero-dose children 

Kenya is one of the world's top performers in a landmark vaccine…

Prof Scott Ratzan: Why communication is as powerful as medicine

He has spent three decades pushing for better health communication, and he…

One jab, 3 diseases, billions saved: How Kenya’s livestock vaccine is a game changer 

The launch of Africa's first three-in-one small ruminant vaccine is more than…

Vaccines & Dollars: The big numbers driving Africa’s manufacturing future 

Kenya is scaling up vaccine manufacturing through the BioVax Institute, a $60.8 million (Ksh7.85 billion)…

Kenya’s health system can survive donor cuts, but politics is standing in the way 

Healthcare competes against many urgent national demands within constrained budgets; debt obligations…

Vaccines drive: Will Africa buy what Africa makes? 

Building vaccine factories on the continent is only half the challenge. The…

Africa’s growing immunisation gap, slow progress and the children paying the price

In Africa, about 800,000 lives are saved every year through immunisation. Yet despite these gains,…

Inside Gates Foundation $9 billion plan to save mothers, children, fight poverty, disease  

Priority areas include maternal health, polio eradication, vaccine development, and use of…

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