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September 30, 2026
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Delivering vaccines in Nigeria’s Zamfara State means racing against both time and terrain. When seasonal rains turn dirt roads into rivers, or securit…
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August 19, 2026
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Understanding why routine vaccination stalled in northern Nigeria requires a look at what happens on the back roads of Sokoto. Failure is rarely a cas…
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June 30, 2026
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Good nutrition lifts everything. It helps children fight infections, succeed in school, and it keeps mothers safe in pregnancy and childbirth. Yet, de…
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April 9, 2026
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In late 2025, a senior health official in Sokoto was shown a series of photos from a local health clinic. He saw a rusted delivery bed and a room with…
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March 10, 2026
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In July 2025, a senior public health leader in Kano, Nigeria, sat before a screen flashing red. The data revealed an uncomfortable truth: two urban ar…
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February 23, 2026
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In a remote village in the DRC, I recently slept in a health centre 200 km from any urban hub. My goal was to see what was really happening on the gro…
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February 3, 2026
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Children and adolescents living with HIV in Nigeria face a six- to eight-fold higher risk of developing cervical cancer. Protecting them against HPV –…
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November 24, 2025
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When we began working with the Government of Sindh on maternal and newborn health, the challenges were daunting – overstretched facilities, unreliable…
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November 13, 2025
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When we began work in Punjab, Pakistan in 2014, one in eleven children died before their fifth birthday – far worse than in Punjab, India, where focus…
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October 17, 2025
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Every day across Africa, women and children die from causes we already know how to prevent. The real challenge is not lack of innovation, but connecti…
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September 24, 2025
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Delivery can transform how governments achieve results, but its success is highly context-dependent. Across countries, some delivery efforts drive rap…
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September 5, 2025
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Delivery is often credited with driving rapid improvements, but do those improvements last? Can they survive changes in leadership, funding cycles, or…
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August 28, 2025
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It makes sense to associate innovation with technology. But in the toughest settings, the most creative solutions are those that empower, recognise, a…
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August 20, 2025
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Last month in Zamfara, Nigeria, a vaccinator prepared to visit a remote village, where most children had never received a single vaccine. Local contac…
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August 13, 2025
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At its heart, delivery refers to a set of approaches, tools, and guidelines used to help governments improve services for citizens. It’s about moving…
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August 13, 2025
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How do you get every school to be a good school? How, with thousands of schools and hundreds of thousands of teachers, do you get every lesson to be a…
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July 18, 2025
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In March 2020, the world locked down overnight. No pilots. No randomised controlled trials. Just bold action in the face of uncertainty. Because the s…
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July 10, 2025
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In March 2024, Ethiopia launched its first single-dose HPV vaccine campaign. This was a huge first step for preventing cervical cancer in the country.…
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June 26, 2025
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In 2022, Dr. Azra Pechuho, Minister of Health in Sindh, Pakistan, reviewed data suggesting maternal health facilities across the province were functio…
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June 17, 2025
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Over the past decade, innovative, tech-enabled tools have become critical in enabling governments across Africa to address vital public sector challen…
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June 6, 2025
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Adversity doesn’t stop leaders. It reveals them. When systems are strained and budgets tight, political commitment makes the difference between well-i…
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May 23, 2025
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Off the main stage at the World Health Assembly in Geneva, a small side event carried a big idea: What if crisis isn’t a setback – but the spark we’ve…
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April 29, 2025
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Low immunisation coverage in low- and middle-income countries is often the result of limited outreach vaccination capabilities. Often needed for the m…
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April 25, 2025
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On World Malaria Day 2025, the call from the World Health Organization (WHO) is to Reinvest, reimagine, and reignite. The burden is felt heaviest in A…
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April 24, 2025
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As we mark World Immunization Week 2025, this year’s banner, Immunization for All is Humanly Possible, isn’t just a rallying cry. It’s a global commit…
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April 7, 2025
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On World Health Day 2025, the theme is healthy beginnings, hopeful futures. In light of increasing development sector spending cuts, Susan Mackay – He…
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February 28, 2025
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Vaccination coverage is growing in low- and middle-income countries, yet some communities are being missed entirely. Many communities across low- and…
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February 27, 2025
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Gathering data on low immunisation communities is an important first step to increasing vaccination coverage for citizens. Once immunisation coverage…
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December 17, 2024
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If the past few years have taught us anything, it is that trust is the foundation on which effective health systems are built. Yet, as Acasus’ CEO, Fe…
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September 12, 2024
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Pre-primary education has not always had the attention it needs to improve in low- and middle-income countries. It is time to turn a corner. Large num…
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August 20, 2024
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Citizens often face a wide variety of problems during flooding crises, but strong support from governments, NGOs and partners can overcome these chall…
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August 19, 2024
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Labour services have not always been up to the standards needed for expectant mothers, but significant improvements are being made in low- and middle-…
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July 29, 2024
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Measles vaccines are estimated to have averted around 57 million deaths globally between 2000 and 2022. However, there is still work to be done, with…
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July 26, 2024
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While scaling resources in education is important, this alone does not improve quality. Moving beyond traditional metrics can help to see the details…
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July 25, 2024
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Using AI for the benefit of education systems remains a challenge. But if done correctly, there can be significant benefits. AI has been one of the mo…
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July 11, 2024
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Even where the demand for HPV vaccines is high, opportunities are being missed to vaccinate girls. But there are ways to ensure girls receive the vacc…
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July 11, 2024
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There are limits to how technology can be used in education. Nevertheless, technology is being used to create improvements across low- and middle-inco…
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July 10, 2024
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Only one in eight girls globally are vaccinated against HPV. There are various ways to raise the demand. A single vaccination can protect girls a…
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July 10, 2024
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Investment in primary education is falling short of targets in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). But there are proven strategies to turn…
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June 21, 2024
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Some health workers understandably worry about technology further overburdening them. But if interventions are designed correctly, more overburdening…
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June 17, 2024
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The vast majority of frontline staff work exceptionally hard. But governments require evidence of performance to address concerns. Accountability is i…
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June 14, 2024
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Some of the world’s best organisations are seeing positive change by letting frontline workers take the lead in suggesting and creating solutions. Und…
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June 11, 2024
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Governments and donors often want to address major health and education issues with one large policy adjustment. But it is the small, daily, improveme…
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June 10, 2024
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Many people agree that sustainability is the right path to follow, but delivering it is something else entirely. Sustainability is an important goal i…
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March 9, 2023
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The province of Sindh in Pakistan ran one of the largest Measles-Rubella (MR) vaccination campaigns, reaching around 20 million children in two weeks.…
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December 5, 2022
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Sue advises Acasus on technical issues in the health sector. September 14 Our founder, Fenton Whelan, invited me to an all-staff meeting in Duba…
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December 5, 2022
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Most governments recognise the need to improve health and education outcomes but fail to act. Data-driven advocacy led by local champions can help dri…
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December 2, 2022
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Hesitancy around vaccination is a growing challenge across the world. Our most recent data from Africa shows 72% of individuals expressing hesitation…
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August 9, 2022
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Have you ever thought you don’t understand the decisions ministers take? Sometimes they didn’t seem to really care about the people; other times it fe…
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August 4, 2022
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Immunisation coverage in Balochistan stands at 38%, the lowest in Pakistan. The province faces unique challenges in increasing routine immunisation; i…
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July 5, 2022
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Northern regions in Ethiopia have been operating with reduced or disrupted health services. We supported regional administration and the government in…
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May 26, 2022
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Somalia is one of the most difficult places to provide health services, following decades of conflict and political instability, and persistent limita…
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May 10, 2022
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Mozambique’s strong performance is gaining recognition regionally and internationally, despite initial constraints of vaccine supply, in-country deliv…
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April 5, 2022
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We summarise four challenges below and mention some of the best practices that can help partners and implementers overcome them. Reliance on self-repo…
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February 22, 2022
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Here are a few insights I gained from my experience that I would like to share with the thousands of young public officials who have to make decisions…
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November 23, 2021
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Around 90% of children in sub-Saharan Africa cannot read a basic sentence by the time they turn ten. Often this is due to the poor use of evidence in…
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September 21, 2021
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Some environments present particular challenges for health service delivery, including active conflict, political instability, limited financing, extr…
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August 31, 2021
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Each year, around 10 million children receive no vaccinations at all. More than fifty percent of these zero-dose children live in urban slums, remote…
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August 10, 2021
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A few weeks ago, Taimur Khan Jhagra, Health Minister and Finance Minister in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, used his Twitter account to highlight gende…
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June 8, 2021
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Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, nine out of ten children in Sub-Saharan Africa were unable to read and understand a simple text by the age of ten.…
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May 12, 2021
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It can be challenging to provide consistent health services in urban slums, which often contain populations with some of the lowest levels of access t…
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May 11, 2021
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The rollout of the Covid vaccine is unlike any other. For most public officials involved, it will be the most complex challenge they will ever face in…
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May 10, 2021
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To help reduce the rate of under-immunised children in Mozambique, the government launched new digital supervision tools to help manage service delive…
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April 6, 2021
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In 2017, surveys showed that only one in three children were fully immunised in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), while one in five did not…
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February 23, 2021
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One of the first steps in redesigning a vaccine distribution system is to understand the existing bottlenecks, flaws and inefficiencies that prevent i…
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March 19, 2020
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Good school leadership can have a powerful effect on learning and achievement. Research conducted by Marzano, Waters and McNulty found that the e…
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November 19, 2019
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Leaders of health and education systems often rely on datasets that are inaccurate or incomplete. Advanced analytics can help understand and improve d…
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