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ABOUT THIS PROJECTVaccine for the World is a new multimedia project from the Evening Standard. Over the next year, we will explore the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic as it unfolds, with a focus on the vaccine rollout in six African countries. We will highlight the challenges, the potential solutions and the role of London’s scientists and innovators in making a safer world for all. The series is funded by the European Journalism Centre’s European Development Journalism Grants program, which is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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“Lab-in-a-backpack” Covid-19 test could help vaccine-poor communities

By Rosalind Russell
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Covid spurs Africa’s burgeoning vaccine manufacturing industry

By Sarah Wild
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Meet Norah Magero, the inventor helping to vaccinate Kenyans

By Syraat Al Mustaqeem
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Gates, Wellcome boost investment to speed up new vaccines

By Rosalind Russell
World

Easy to swallow Covid vaccine pill being developed for needle-phobic

By Syraat Al Mustaqeem
UK

Vaccinate poorer countries or UK more at risk of Covid variants

By Bill McLoughlin
Health

Pfizer and BioNTech launch clinical trial for Omicron-specific vaccine

By Michael Howie
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Innovation is how we’ll exit this pandemic – and prevent the next one

By Joe Cerrell
Insider

London’s unvaccinated: Meet the 33% who still haven’t had a Covid jab

By Katie Strick
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COVAX delivers one billionth vaccine dose

By Rosalind Russell
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Anti-vaxxers: What does history teach us about vaccine hesitancy?

By Syraat Al Mustaqeem
Tech

Podcast: The people working to vaccinate the world against Covid-19

By Rachelle Abbott
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Did Omicron evolve in an immuno-suppressed person?

By Sarah Wild
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New YouTube series explains why the vaccine can help us all

By Syraat Al Mustaqeem
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Omicron spreads in Africa, but severe cases are low in South Africa

By Rosalind Russell
UK

First person to get Covid jab a year ago urges everyone to get vaccine

By Josh Salisbury
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On the road with Malawi’s Covid vaccination van

By Charles Pensulo
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Mozambique delivers Covid vaccines to the last mile as Omicron looms

By Emidio JozineTavares Cebola
Vaccine for the World

The African scientists keeping pace with new Covid variants

By Gemma GatticchiGemma Ritchie
Insider

Will AstraZeneca save the world?

By Kate Wills
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Give the gift of a Covid-19 vaccine this Christmas

By Hafsa Khalil
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South African scientists fear new Covid variant may be more infectious

By Laura Lopez Gonzalez
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Africa’s health workers are still ‘dangerously exposed’ to infection

By Rosalind Russell
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Study shows 50 per cent effectiveness of India’s Covid vaccine

By Hafsa Khalil
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Quest for a ‘people’s vaccine’: scientists try to crack the code

By Laura Lopez Gonzalez
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How the Covid vaccine changed five young people’s lives

By Hafsa Khalil
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Why refugees need an equal shot in the vaccine rollout

By Gugu Mbatha-Raw
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Covid-19 vaccine brings hope for refugees in Uganda’s remote north

By Nikissi SerumagaPatience Asaba Katushabe
UK

Targeted messaging needed to tackle vaccine hesitancy – study

By Lucinda Cameron
Vaccine for the World

How to turn Africa from a vaccine desert to a vaccine hub?

By Gemma RitchieGemma Gatticchi
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South Africa targets reluctant men with the Covid-19 vaccine

By Laura Lopez Gonzalez
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The Congolese youth groups fighting vaccine misinformation

By Syraat Al Mustaqeem
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Lesotho’s church leaders put their faith in the Covid vaccine

By Ghazal Abbasi
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How did Rwanda speed ahead in the Covid-19 vaccine race?

By Rosalind Russell
UK

WHO sets out global Covid vaccine targets amid fears of new variants

By Laura Parnaby
UK

Harry and Meghan call for vaccine equity in New York speech

By Alexander Britton
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Exclusive: How Coca-Cola is supporting vaccine delivery in Eswatini

By Ghazal Abbasi
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Trials begin on new vaccine to fight Covid-19 variants

By Michael Howie
UK

‘Desperate need’ to get vaccines to Africa – Gordon Brown

By Lucinda Cameron
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The Malian doctor leading the charge to make Covid vaccines in Africa

By Rosalind Russell
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Could the technology in the Covid vaccine protect us from cancer?

By Rosalind Russell
UK

Covid booster jabs not needed in general population, say WHO experts

By Nina Massey
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Science Museum to showcase the miracle of the Covid vaccine

By Rosalind Russell
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Bushfire - the African festival burning through vaccine hesitancy

By Ghazal Abbasi
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The rise of the factcheckers: slaying COVID myths one at a time

By Rosalind Russell
UK

Prince Harry blames ‘mass-scale misinformation’ for vaccine hesitancy

By Tom Horton
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Battling inequity: Africa boosts Covid-19 jab production capacity

By Rosalind Russell
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6 big questions on the global vaccine response, answered

By Emma LoffhagenRosalind Russell
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The digital infrastructure supporting vaccinations in South Africa

By Ghazal Abbasi
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Bill Gates and Tony Blair on the urgent need to end vaccine apartheid

By Susannah Butter
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Solar fridges: the cool way to ensure Covid-19 vaccines across Africa

By Ghazal Abbasi
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A million hopes: the ASHA women delivering the vaccine in India

By Monica Jha
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New vaccine shipment offers glimmer of light in Malawi

By Charles Pensulo
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Meet Maggie, the Malawian musician turned lockdown hero

By Thoko Chikondi
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‘Why I took the vaccine’: Stories from around the world

By Ghazal AbbasiRosalind Russell
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10 of the most googled Covid myths debunked

By Emma Loffhagen
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Angola’s Covid vaccine one-stop shops - a model for Africa’s rollout?

By Ghazal Abbasi
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Ugandans scramble for ‘herbal remedy’ for Covid-19

By Ghazal Abbasi
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The Kenyan women resisting Al-Shabaab’s war on vaccines

By Abjata Khalif
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‘Joints for jabs’ and other vaccine incentives from around the world

By Emma Loffhagen
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Put women at the centre of pandemic recovery, says Gates Foundation

By Rosalind Russell
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This virus has a game plan: get ready to fight, says Covid expert

By Rosalind Russell
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The community centres persuading London’s minorities to get the jab

By Ghazal Abbasi
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Why Africa’s faith leaders hold the key to dispelling vaccine doubts

By Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani