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Tag - Immunisation

Child in Kimbe, West New Britain, Papua New Guinea (ADB-Flickr)

PNG’s plummeting vaccination rates: now the lowest in the world?

by Stephen Howes and Kingtau Mambon
30 August 2021
Celebrating 40 years of WHO's global immunisation program (Pan American Health Organisation/Flickr/CC BY-ND 2.0)

How immunisation is vital to win the war against disease

by Mark Rice
27 April 2018
Sabina Rai receives a vaccination from Health Worker Jiban Poudel at the temporary Batulechaur Health Post, Pokhara, Nepal (Flickr/AusAID/Jim Holmes CC BY 2.0)

For immunisation, Australia must continue to also look beyond its borders

by Helen Evans
28 April 2017
Polio vaccination in Sokoto, Nigeria 2014 (Flickr/CDC Global CC BY 2.0)

Polio is one step from eradication, and we must take it

by Chris Maher and Reza Hossaini
26 April 2017
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Fortnightly links: evaluation and data, immunization, the ethics of aid, Ethiopia, and more

by Camilla Burkot and Terence Wood
9 September 2016
Polio vaccination in South Sudan, 2014 (Flickr/UN Photo/JC McIlwaine)

Polio eradication, routine immunisation and severe cuts to our meagre aid budget

by Barbara McPake and Peter Leslie Annear
9 October 2015

Maximising effectiveness of Gavi aid: when less can mean more

by Camilla Burkot
26 March 2015

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