During the COVID-19 pandemic, we have seen the best of international collective action and its limitations. COVID-19 vaccine development showed global cooperation at its finest. Multiple safe, highly effective vaccines were licensed in record time through an unprecedented collaborative effort.
- The African continent shoulders the largest share – 71% - of global childhood deaths due to rotavirus diarrhea. As a result, African scientists, advocates, and government decision-makers have led incredible progress in developing and delivering lifesaving rotavirus vaccines to children across the continent.
- This recently published Cochrane Review, published by Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care, explores how parents and carers make decisions regarding vaccinating their children. Cochrane EPOC have also produced a short implementation guide related to this review.
- The lockdown, meant to prevent the spread of Covid-19, places women living with abusive partners in harm's way, a new study has found.
- As South Africa emerges from the third wave of the Covid pandemic, all efforts are being channelled into encouraging more people to be vaccinated.