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Cervical cancer is highly preventable, yet it kills roughly 300,000 women each year. Working together, South Africa’s health and education leaders have built a school-based health delivery system that is vaccinating girls against HPV.

Rwanda and Bhutan are on track to eliminate the human papillomavirus (HPV) – the leading cause of cervical cancer

This week we commemorate World Immunization Week, an annual celebration emphasizing the need for collective action to safeguard people from vaccine-preventable diseases.

Tuberculosis remains a global health threat and despite routine vaccination with BCG, the vaccine used to prevent TB, this burden remains highest across the African continent.

The current visit, lecture tour and associated social media campaign by UK based cardiologist Aseem Malhotra in South Africa has raised public safety concerns among clinicians, scientists, and public health specialists in South Africa

Pneumonia is the leading infectious disease killer in the world, claiming the lives of an estimated 2.5 million people in 2019, including 672,000 children under five and 1.2 million adults over 70 years, according to the Global Burden

Dr Edina Amponsah-Dacosta, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at VACFA, penned an article in The Conversation that explores how the COVID-19 pandemic has widened immunisation gaps in Africa. Please find the full article here:

Dr Benjamin Kagina, Senior Researcher and Vaccinologist at VACFA penned an article for The Conversation “Making COVID vaccines in Africa: advances and sustainability issues”. The article discusses the urgency of Africa&rsqu

Dr Benjamin Kagina, Senior Researcher and Vaccinologist at VACFA penned an article for D C Development and Cooperation “Covid-19 vaccine rollout: upsides and downsides in Africa”. The article explores the negative impacts the COVID-19 crisi