Latest REACH News
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“Greater impact and trust, reduced costs”: making the case for REACH integration at the Maputo Child Survival Forum
As global health leaders gathered in Maputo, Mozambique, for the 2025 Innovation and Action for Immunization and Child Survival Forum, the REACH Network delivered a key message: We must integrate and cooperate – do more, differently – in order to give children in the most vulnerable settings a fair chance to survive and thrive. Left…
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Category: Burkina Faso, Child survival, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Open access, REACH Network, Sierra Leone -
Lessons from the field: Mortality surveillance in Mali and Niger
The REACH Network recently held an important discussion on mortality surveillance, enabling the Network community to hear at first hand about the experience of REACH teams in Mali and Niger, who have recently completed large-scale mortality surveillance surveys. Such surveys are a vital component in the evaluation of the impact REACH programmes are having –…
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AVENIR II completes third cycle of MDA in Agadez and Dosso regions
Between 21 and 25 June 2025, the AVENIR project team successfully completed the third round of mass distribution of azithromycin (MDA) in the Agadez and Dosso regions. This campaign, part of AVENIR’s Phase II REACH project, was preceded by the usual preparatory activities: meetings with local authorities and training for community health workers, to ensure…
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Regional leadership for greater health equity: REACH Network publishes its report on WHA Ministerial Roundtable
Following the success of the Ministerial Roundtable, held in Geneva the week of the 78th World Health Assembly, during which ministers from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali, and Niger, and senior health leaders from Senegal to Indonesia, came together to affirm their joint commitment to the child survival cause, the REACH Network is proud…
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REACH Mali instigating a new era for child health and community resilience
by Professor Samba O Sow, Director General, Center for Vaccine Development – Mali Child survival is coming to the fore as a major concern in Mali, as we seek to address the most persistent of challenges to our national health and development. With the launch of the REACH Mali platform, which will ultimately be scaled…
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Minister officially launches REACH Mali, opening new chapter in fight against high child mortality rates
On Wednesday, 18 June 2025, Mali took a momentous step forward in its mission to combat infant and neonatal mortality. The REACH Mali national programme to distribute azithromycin for child survival was officially launched by the Ministry of Health and Social Development, Colonel Dr Assa Badiallo Touré, in the village of Samaya, in the Mandé…
