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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As COVID-19 has slipped down the news agenda in recent months, it may be tempting to think that the worst is now behind us and that we can all put our feet up and relax again. As an important new book amply demonstrates, however, doing so would be a huge […]
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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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We are very pleased to announce that Professor Samba Sow, Director General of CVD-Mali, has been awarded the Speak Up Africa Leadership Award for 2021. Launched in 2019, this award aims to recognise and celebrate institutions and individuals who demonstrate exemplary leadership in sustainable development and whose initiatives are having […]
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WHO and the Ministries of Health of Colombia, Mali and the Philippines have announced the official launch of the Solidarity Trial Vaccines study. CVD-Mali is very proud to manage and implement the trial in Mali on behalf of the national government. Solidarity Trial Vaccines is an international randomised clinical trial […]
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CVD-Mali’s Director General, Professor Samba Sow, has today been honoured both by the Government of Mali and the prestigious National Academy of Medicine (USA) for work in public health and emergency preparedness. In a ceremony in Bamako, Professor Sow was made a Commander of the National Order of Mali. Prestigious […]
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CVD-Mali and the Malian government are delighted to be taking part in WHO’s global trial of new therapeutic treatments for COVID-19. The Solidarity PLUS trial for promising drugs will be conducted in 52 countries worldwide and is an unprecedented global collaboration for COVID-19 research and development. The Solidarity therapeutics trial […]
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Professor Samba Sow and the other WHO Special Envoys on COVID-19 recently published an important call for vaccine equity in a number of leading global publications. Their analysis is available in French, Arabic, Spanish and other languages. Reproduced below, it can also be read in English on the website of […]
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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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