In every generation, vaccines work. This World Immunization Week, CVD-Mali celebrates the power of immunisation to protect children, families, and communities and to save lives across generations. That celebration, however, comes also with a reminder – that progress must be protected. Too many children still miss out on vital, potentially […]
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On Wednesday, 18 June 2025, Mali took a momentous step forward in its mission to combat infant and neonatal mortality. The REACH Mali national programme to distribute azithromycin for child survival was officially launched by the Ministry of Health and Social Development, Colonel Dr Assa Badiallo Touré, in the village […]
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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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In January 2025, REACH Mali, in collaboration with the Malian Ministry of Health and Social Development, embarked on a groundbreaking mass drug administration (MDA) in the Sikasso region, aiming to address the pressing child health crisis in Mali. Over two weeks, an extraordinary campaign was carried out to ensure that […]
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Researchers at CVD-Mali and the Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health (a research centre at the University of Maryland, Baltimore), are researching ways to reduce infant and child mortality in Africa. Significant investment In countries where CVD works, like Mali, many infants do not survive their first month of life. The […]
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The REACH project to distribute azithromycin for child survival took a major step forward as Mali began rolling out its national scale-up of the life-saving intervention. On Friday, 2 August 2024, the REACH Mali team began mass drug administration (MDA) in Baroueli, in the Ségou region, some 200km east of the capital, […]
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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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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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