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Delivering a potential COVID-19 vaccine to the world: understanding the scale of the challenge
If we assume 70% of the world’s people need to be immunised to achieve herd immunity, that means producing vaccines for more than 5 billion people. To put this into context, the global demand for vaccines totalled 3.5 billion doses in 2018.
Being a force for good in the face of global challenges to the protection of civilians
This week, the UN Secretary-General published his annual report on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict. It helps countries like the UK understand what’s really happening in key conflicts.
Eating away the Covid-19 pandemic
Written by Webster Makombe Whilst the trending phrases during the Covid-19 pandemic are “social distancing” and “self-isolation”, where I am from we are saying “kusiri kufa ndekupi”. A Shona call of desperation which translated into English means “caught in between a rock and a hard place”. The Covid-19 pandemic has shaken the world into a […]
194 governments unanimously adopt COVID-19 resolution
Winning the global fight against COVID-19 depends on bringing relief to war-weary families
In a camp in Syria a boy told our team, “We’re used to the war now. Even when it hits nearby, we hide in caves. But with this virus, we can’t hide.”
Coronavirus crisis: what are the next steps for children in the UK?
“It’s time to stand together to fight Covid19,” a Bangladeshi frontline health worker urges people to be kind
Tribute to Patricio Walmsley: Save the Children Emergency Health Unit staff member
Last week the Emergency Health Unit (EHU) received the very sad news that our staff member, Patricio Walmsley, who deployed with us numerous times, was killed in a plane accident in his home country Argentina. He was working for the Argentinean flying ambulance service at the time. His friend and colleague Christopher Forbes has written […]