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This #WorldPolioDay, I’m thinking about how far we’ve come—and how close we are to ending polio for good. Thanks to the determination of health workers, parents, community leaders, and global partners like Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), Rotary International, World Health Organization, UNICEF, and Gavi,…

🌍 In 2024, a global milestone: Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and partners helped protect more than 72 million children from preventable diseases like measles, polio, and diphtheria. 💉 This progress is powered by the dedication of health workers, community leaders, and country governments strengthening routine immuni…

Malaria elimination happens one community at a time. Lao PDR is getting close to eliminating malaria. Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Tanzania are also showing how local data can help countries make faster progress. Malaria can be prevented and treated, yet it still takes hundreds of thousands of lives ea…

This #WorldPolioDay, I’m thinking about how far we’ve come—and how close we are to ending polio for good. Thanks to the determination of health workers, parents, community leaders, and global partners like Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), Rotary International, World Health Organization, UNICEF, and Gavi,…

🌍 In 2024, a global milestone: Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and partners helped protect more than 72 million children from preventable diseases like measles, polio, and diphtheria. 💉 This progress is powered by the dedication of health workers, community leaders, and country governments strengthening routine immuni…

What do the countries leading the way in digital health have in common? Exemplars in Global Health's research offers some valuable answers.    One takeaway stood out to me. The most successful countries started with a specific problem facing the people and communities they were trying to serve—and then they built th…