Child survival is coming to the fore as a major concern in Mali, as we seek to address the most persistent of challenges to our national health and development. With the launch of the REACH Mali platform, which will ultimately be scaled up to cover the whole of the country, […]
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This year, like every year, CVD-Mali is immensely proud to add its voice and experience to the global celebration that is WHO’s World Immunization Week. This year’s theme, ‘The Big Catch-Up’, is particularly relevant to us in Mali – and, I suspect, to a great many countries like ours, for […]
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Here at CVD-Mali, vaccine development is our bread and butter and we welcome every opportunity, and World Immunization Week in particular, to shine a light on the amazing, life-changing power and potential of vaccines and vaccination. In all our work, over the course of 20 years trialling, developing, and introducing […]
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For our team here at CVD-Mali, World Immunization Week is always a notable event on the calendar. As the Center for Vaccine Development in Mali, our core work has always revolved around the development, trial and implementation of safe and effective vaccines, in Mali primarily but also in the wider […]
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At CVD-Mali we are very fortunate to be working at the moment on many different health-related projects. These include vaccine development trials, a leprosy treatment trial, maternal and child health trials as well as ongoing work on surveillance and analysis of COVID-19 in Malian communities. As always, we carry out […]
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The COVID-19 pandemic in Africa has arrived at a critical point. We are seeing increases in deaths and overwhelmed health systems, in countries that often lack the infrastructure to properly record cases and respond. I see on the ground the toll all this is taking – on communities, on health […]
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There has not been much time for reflection this year, it has been a year of crisis and action. However, as well as carrying out our work, it is important too to take some time to pause and reflect. COVID-19 has affected the world in ways we could never have […]
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I have spent a large part of my time during the last three months in the field, in various parts of rural Mali, trying to ensure that CVD-Mali’s large-scale trials are able to get up and running. I have also been working on our ongoing COVID-19 research projects and, of […]
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