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03/12/2026

In the DRC, we're collaborating with the Ministry of Health to identify local groups that could help boost awareness, acceptance, and uptake of the malaria vaccine.

Through this program, people from many different walks of life—not just doctors and health workers—are stepping up as malaria prevention advocates.

📻 Florence, a journalist at Radio Okapi in Maniema Province, is one of them. She plans to host interviews and interactive sessions about the malaria vaccine on her radio program.

“I have to turn this data into simple messages for moms and dads,” Florence says. “If a mother listens to me and decides to vaccinate her child, then my voice will have saved a life.”

03/11/2026

Every mother and baby deserves a healthy start.

But preventable diseases like HIV, syphilis, hepatitis B, Chagas, and other conditions still impact too many women, infants, and families.

Through the SAFEStart+ initiative, financed and supported by Unitaid, we’ve partnered with communities and governments in nine countries to address this challenge. The project integrates prevention, screening, and treatment for multiple diseases into routine pregnancy and postnatal services, so women and their babies can access holistic care in one place.

Across all locations, SAFEStart+ expects to prevent 47,000 infections and save 179,000 years of healthy life by 2030.

➡️ Read more: https://www.path.org/our-impact/articles/a-healthy-and-safe-start-for-mothers-and-babies-in-nine-countries/?utm_campaign=iwd2026&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

03/10/2026

When girls are given space, support, and visibility, they can drive transformative change within their communities. 💫

This , we celebrated the ongoing impact of programs like the Community Sport and Health Cooperation Initiative for girls around the world.

Led by PATH in partnership with the International Olympic Committee, the initiative creates meaningful leadership pathways for girls across 5 countries.

In one Vietnam province, the School Sports Ambassador Competition is providing opportunities for girls to take visible leadership roles. Fifty students from 10 schools were selected as ambassadors for the campaign, with girls representing the majority. Through structured mentorship and teamwork, ambassadors identified challenges in their schools, proposed practical solutions, and presented their ideas with confidence.

Meanwhile, Nepal’s launch of the Community Sport and Health Cooperation Initiative in January activated 700+ schools and is already showing strong participation of girls in structured physical activity and sport.

These milestones underscore growing regional momentum and commitment to embedding inclusive, school-based sport systems that empower girls as leaders and changemakers.

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03/09/2026

What does it really take to move Kenya’s primary health care agenda from vision to value?

At the last week, PATH and Amref Health Africa hosted a high-level side event that brought together government officials, development partners, funders, and academics to unpack Kenya’s PHC financing strategies and find ways to maximize the impact of ongoing reforms.

Top 5 takeaways:
1️⃣ Integration and efficiency are key to unlocking more money for health.
2️⃣ Fiscal sovereignty is sparked by domestically earmarked health financing anchored in law.
3️⃣ Digitalization is a game-changer for improving service provision and financing efficiency.
4️⃣ Strategic partnerships can enhance effectiveness in the resource-constrained era.
5️⃣ Innovation and creativity are critical to addressing existing challenges within the health system.

Thank you to our speakers for their insights and leadership! At PATH, we remain committed to our work with governments to reimagine sustainable primary health care through a people-centered, data-driven approach.

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03/05/2026

Reaching more children with malaria vaccines starts with community acceptance.

In the DRC, PATH is working with the Ministry of Health on a new approach to improve vaccine uptake: engaging non-traditional partners like local radio stations, theater troupes, and taxi drivers to spread the word about malaria vaccination.

🚕 Romain, who coordinates taxi drivers in Kisangani, participated in a co-creation workshop and quickly saw the potential of his network to support malaria vaccination efforts. “We transport lives,” he explains, “so we might as well transport messages that save lives.”



📸: Yves Ndjadi/PATH.

03/02/2026

How contagious is the measles?

😷 Very. In fact, it's 12x more contagious than the flu and twice as contagious as COVID-19. To stop measles from spreading, at least 95% of people need to be vaccinated. Globally, we're not there yet.

Microarray patch (MAP) technology could help close the gap by making the measles vaccine easier to transport, store, and administer in hard-to-reach areas.

02/27/2026

Irene Neumbe has dedicated herself to helping children in her community to live healthy lives. Deep in the hills of Sironko, Eastern Uganda, she visits homes, attends church gatherings, and speaks at community meetings to spread the word: .

With the support of PATH in Uganda, 8 civil society organizations have deployed Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance funding to register households for vaccination, locate missed children, and support school outreach.

This work depends on the tireless efforts of Village Health Team members like Irene, as well as health workers, parents, and caregivers as immunization champions.

📸: Irene Neumbe poses for a photo at Buhugu HC III, Sironko District. Photo: PATH/Robert Kayemba.

02/23/2026

With help from PATH, Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations - CEPI is establishing the Biospecimen Sourcing Initiative to create a faster, more consistent, more equitable, and easier-to-use system for collecting biological samples in an outbreak.

Biospecimens from disease survivors are necessary for the rapid development of new vaccines, treatments, and diagnostics when an outbreak occurs.

This initiative could make a vital contribution towards the , a global goal spearheaded by CEPI to develop vaccines within just 100 days after a new virus is identified.

Learn more: https://cepi-tr.tghn.org/research-and-development/biospecimen-sourcing-initiative/

02/20/2026

This month in PATH Insights, we're highlighting our medical devices and health technologies program!

🧪💡 Explore a few of the PATH innovations making an impact worldwide: https://bit.ly/4kWKvFN

02/19/2026

"We’re in a unique moment where we need to find how to deliver interventions with greater efficiency," PATH Chief Global Health Programs Officer Kammerle Schneider tells Formidable.

"Let me give you an example of women’s health:

🤰 Women show up to a facility when they're pregnant, and we have very siloed programs.

📋 Could we, at that touchpoint, give them a bed net, check them for HIV, for tuberculosis, syphilis?

💉 Could we give them a maternal immunization vaccine?

🪣 Can we start bundling care in different ways at different touchpoints that already exist?"

Full interview: https://beformidable.com/p/why-women-s-health-is-the-next-global-frontier

A discussion with Kammerle Schneider, PATH's chief global health officer

02/17/2026

PATH is working with the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (Sahpra) to develop a framework for evaluating AI tools.

The goal: to ensure emerging health technologies are safe, inclusive, and effective before they enter the market.

“You wouldn’t give your child or loved one a vaccine or drug that hadn’t been tested or evaluated for safety,” Chief AI Officer Bilal Mateen explains. “We’re working to bring that same standard of rigorous evaluation to AI tools in mental health, because trust must be earned, not assumed.”

Learn more about the project in Axios: https://www.axios.com/local/seattle/2026/02/11/seattle-path-ai-mental-health-safety-rules-regulation-south-africa

Companies would need to show evidence that their tools actually improve mental health outcomes.

02/12/2026

Join us on February 25 for a webinar examining how routine immunization platforms are being used to strengthen malaria vaccine uptake in Burkina Faso and Mozambique.

Moderated by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance's Eleonora Genovese and PATH's Saira Nawaz, the session will offer practical takeaways for global immunization partners. Presenters will share best practices, lessons learned, and early implementation insights from both countries.

French and Portuguese interpretation will be available.

✍️ Register now: https://bit.ly/4riVInl