Source: DALL-E, OpenAI, 2025.
🚨 Meet the people shaping Africa’s vaccine policies:
SACEMA’s Policy Modelling Fellows use local data to build tools for polio and measles in Africa.
🔗 www.sacema.org
#HumanlyPossible #VaccinesWork
29.04.2025 12:16 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Source: DALL-E, OpenAI, 2025.
Cervical cancer is the top cause of cancer death among women in South Africa. 🧬 Women living with HIV face even greater risks. MSc student Kim Malloch (supervised by Dr Cari van Schalkwyk) is modelling how therapeutic HPV vaccines (TxVs) could turn the tide. 🌍
#HPV #CancerPrevention #Vaccines
27.04.2025 07:21 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Source: DALL-E, OpenAI, 2025.
🎯 Cervical cancer is vaccine-preventable.
In South Africa, too many girls are missing their HPV shots.
SACEMA’s models show that without better coverage, we won’t reach elimination targets.
📢 Let’s change that. HPV vaccines work and #ImmunizationForAll is #HumanlyPossible. #CervicalCancer #HPV
26.04.2025 17:02 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Source: DALL-E, OpenAI, 2025.
🍼 Immunity should start from birth.
The #IMPACTHB project is modelling real solutions:
✅ Maternal screening; ✅ Timely birth-dose vaccination
📍Focus: High-risk, high-HIV settings where gaps are widest.
🌍 Goal: Eliminate #HepB for good.
🧠 Dive into our work 👉 www.sacema.org/2024/07/29/w...
25.04.2025 08:22 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🧬 Vaccines save 6 lives a minute.
This #WorldImmunizationWeek we’re highlighting how modelling + policy + people = vaccine access for all.
Stay tuned as we spotlight HPV, hepatitis B, measles, and our Policy Modelling Fellows.
#HumanlyPossible #VaccinesWork #SACEMAResearch #ResearchforImpact
24.04.2025 15:28 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
In Conversation with Dr Wilfred Otambo, a Junior Researcher at SACEMA and Postdoc at CERI.
Ever wonder what inspires someone to turn lived experience into impactful science? Wilfred Otambo opens up about his journey from malaria-endemic villages to health research across Africa 🌍📊
His story is thoughtful, grounded—and inspiring.
📄 Read more below! #PublicHealth #MalariaResearch
17.04.2025 07:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Source: DALL-E, OpenAI, 2025.
🌍 Shining a light on #NeonatalSepsis in Africa—responsible for up to 29% of neonatal deaths.
🆕 Read our latest review (bit.ly/neonatal_sep... ) + take our short survey to improve care:
🔗 bit.ly/neonatal_sur...
#GlobalHealth #AMR
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