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Against the clock: Kenyan runner, 15, organises 10km run to beat cervical cancer

18 Apr 2023

More than 3,200 Kenyan women die of vaccine-preventable cervical cancer each year, but teenage athlete Stecy Bosse of Kisumu is racing to change that.

Motorbike-riding polio worker ruffles feathers and saves lives in rural Pakistan

06 Apr 2023

Amina Khaskheli discovered she can reach more kids on two wheels than on two feet – so that’s what she’s doing. If the sight of her on her bike has upset some conservative onlookers, it has also inspired more than a few young girls.

How IFFIm funding helps #VaccinesWork

03 Apr 2023

IFFIm supports Gavi’s mission to leave no child behind by delivering fast, flexible and predictable funding to maintain routine immunisation programmes.

Canada pledges C$ 125 million to IFFIm

17 Mar 2023

Canada expands its commitment to childhood immunisation as 11th donor to IFFIm

Rotavirus vaccines return to an outbreak-hit county in Kenya

16 Mar 2023

Supply chain disruption triggered a season of vaccine stockouts and sickness in Nakuru county. Now, health workers and parents are rushing to get their vulnerable babies protected.

How Uzbekistan scrambled to stay polio-free - and succeeded

17 Feb 2023

Still endemic to neighbouring Afghanistan, polio was suddenly resurging in next-door Tajikistan. Uzbekistan’s health system needed to act fast, or risk the futures of its children.

Curbing measles in Kenya’s conflict-troubled Mandera County

31 Jan 2023

Vaccine vials, clued-in parents, dedicated health workers... and armed police: VaccinesWork finds out what it takes to rein in a measles outbreak in Kenya’s north.