Increasingly, conflict, displacement, and climate change impact access to lifesaving vaccines. These factors can exacerbate each other, resulting in millions of children around the world not receiving any immunizations, a group often described as “zero-dose children.”
Preventing infection when regular healthcare access is limited is even more critical.
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New article from Nature considers progress towards sanitation in the last decades since the invention of the modern flush toilet almost 250 years ago.
PATH’s Asset Tracker project provides information on the status of scale-up of key evidence-based interventions that improve maternal, newborn, and child health, and nutrition (MNCHN) outcomes, and save lives. The MNCHN Asset Tracker dashboards allow users to quickly and efficiently compare different indicators across or within countries.
Climate impacts such as rising temperatures are exacerbating natural phenomena like El Nino. What does this mean in the fight to DefeatDD?
Gender dynamics are among the greatest barriers for immunization equity in African countries. Co-created, intersectional solutions are key to overcome these obstacles.
Primary health care (PHC) is the most basic package of essential health services and products needed to prevent disease, promote health, and manage illness. In the case of preventing and treating diarrheal disease, PHC includes basic child health tools like immunization, oral rehydration solution and zinc, and health education for parents. Read about how Kenya is advancing PHC with a new framework.
Climate impacts like flooding and water insecurity heighten the urgency for safe sanitation. As the world contends with climate change and urbanization, sanitation must be universal, flexible, affordable, and sustainable.