Coronaviruses

A health worker at the N’djili vaccinodrome in Kinshasa administers a COVID-19 vaccine to a community member on April 11, 2022. Image: JNK Culture

Africa’s vaccination effort is not losing steam. It is becoming more strategic.

In his first months on the job, Dr. Gawande traveled to Nigeria where USAID is working with local partners to accelerate COVID vaccination rates and ensure distribution of medications for neglected tropical diseases, as well as partnering with Gavi on routine childhood immunizations.

5 Global Health Takeaways from Atul Gawande

Health workers talk to residents in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Dangerous Myth: ‘We’ve Got All the COVID-19 Tools We Need’

A health worker prepares a COVID-19 vaccination certificate in Bimbo, Central African Republic, on November 15, 2021. Image: Barbara Debout/AFP/Getty

It’s Time to Take Coronavirus in Africa Seriously

A man opens a vaccine storage cooler in Madagascar

First Step for Vaccine Success: Cultivate Demand

A man sits alone beside the Spree River during a lockdown in Berlin on April 16, 2021. Image: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

2021—The Year in Global Health

A technician places a beaker into a hatch inside the Afrigen Biologics & Vaccines Ltd. laboratory facility in Cape Town, South Africa, July 12, 2021; the WHO announced it will establish its first-ever mRNA technology transfer hub in Cape Town in an agreement with Afrigen and the Biovac Institute. Photographer: Image: Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Envisioning a New Public Health Order in Africa

Cubicles housing patients on the arena floor inside a temporary Covid-19 hospital at the Krylatskoye Ice Palace in Moscow, Russia, Nov. 17, 2020. Image: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg via Getty

‘Dangerously Unprepared’: New Report Faults Countries’ Pandemic Readiness… Again

A volunteer takes pictures with her mobile phone of others lighting candles in the shape of a red ribbon during an awareness event on the eve of World AIDS Day in Siliguri, West Bengal, India, on November 30, 2021.

Infectious Diseases

Science and Equity Must Go Hand-in-Hand to End AIDS

David Carlisle, James E.K. Hildreth, and Michelle Spencer discussing health disparities at the virtual Bloomberg American Health Summit, Nov. 10, 2021.

Public Health Pulls Lessons from Pandemic Discord and Disparities

Volunteer paramedics provide antibiotic treatment to a COVID-19 patient in Caracas, Venezuela. August 20, 2021. Image: Pedro Ramses Mattey/Anadolu Agency/Getty

A Second, Silent Pandemic: Antibiotic Resistance

NIH director Francis Collins at a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing, Washington, DC, July 2, 2020. Image: Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner/Bloomberg/Getty

Francis Collins' Take