Jul 13, 2023
A community conquers climate impacts on safe water for home and health
Local clinics are the heart of rural community health. But where can a patient turn when health care facilities, or HCFs, are unable to provide one of the most basic elements of care: clean water? This harsh reality confronts 1.7 billion people world...
Jun 29, 2023
Diarrheal disease in the climate of the future
Families collect water in a displacement camp outside Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where they were forced to flee after a volcanic eruption. Photo: PATH/Ley Uwera.
Jun 08, 2023
Four more African countries commit to rotavirus and pneumococcal vaccines
At the 2nd Global Forum on Childhood Pneumonia, leaders renewed commitments to accelerate progress in child survival. Photo: Every Breath Counts.
Apr 25, 2023
Pandemic disruptions should prompt us to intensify, not compromise, immunization coverage
Health supervisor Joseph Muhisi holding oral cholera vaccine outside a displacement camp in Nyiragongo outside the city of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. Photo: PATH/Ley Uwera.
Mar 23, 2023
UN Water calls for accelerated action on water and sanitation access
A boy is taking a bath in the Mohammadpur slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Photo: Maksudur Rahman
Mar 13, 2023
Potential Impact of Rotavirus Vaccines in Southeast Asia
Photo: PATH.
Rotavirus has the potential to impact every child in every country, rich or poor, regardless of access to safe water and sanitation. But the majority of deaths from rotavirus occur in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia in communiti...
Mar 10, 2023
Research and Relationships Define 20 Years of Rotavirus Vaccines
Annet Onyamasi administers an oral rotavirus vaccine to a child at the Khwisero Health Clinic in Kenya. Photo: PATH.
The world has quickly become accustomed to vaccines on demand, as scientists and pharmaceutical companies pursue and re...
Mar 08, 2023
Women are stuck at the intersection of climate change and sanitation
The climate crisis is a health crisis, and one of its manifestations is its disruptive impact on safe drinking water and sanitation. Weather extremes like flooding stress sanitation systems and create increased opportunity for waterborne diseases suc...
Mar 07, 2023
More Than 10 Years Out, Dr. George Armah Reflects on Ghana's Rotavirus Vaccine Introduction
In 2006, the World Health Organization (WHO) approved for global use vaccines against rotavirus, the most lethal cause of severe childhood diarrhea. Dr. George Armah was among the researchers who made it possible, starting his career in on rotavirus ...