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 […]
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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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Reaching every child
Multi-intervention mass drug administration in Sikasso, Mali In January 2025, REACH Mali, in collaboration with the Malian Ministry of Health and Social Development, embarked on a groundbreaking mass drug administration (MDA) in the Sikasso region, aiming to address the pressing child health crisis in Mali. Over two weeks, an extraordinary campaign was carried out to […]
CVD-Mali is proud to recognise and celebrate its Director-General, Professor Samba Sow, on the occasion of his elevation to the rank of Commander of the Malian Order of Merit, the country’s highest distinction in the field of health. This prestigious honour recognizes Professor Sow’s unwavering commitment and dedication to improving public health in Mali and beyond. Professor […]
Researchers at CVD-Mali and the Center for VaccineDevelopment and Global Health (a research centre at the University of Maryland, Baltimore), are researching ways to reduce infant and child mortality in Africa. In countries where CVD works, like Mali, many infants do not survive their first month of life. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) […]
The REACH project to distribute azithromycin for child survival took a major step forward this week as Mali began rolling out its national scale-up of the life-saving intervention. On Friday, 2 August 2024, the REACH Mali team began mass drug administration (MDA) in Baroueli, in the Ségou region, some 200km east of the capital, Bamako. After […]
This year, like every year, CVD-Mali is immensely proud to add its voice and experience to the global celebration that is WHO’s World Immunization Week. This year’s theme, ‘The Big Catch-Up’, is particularly relevant to us in Mali – and, I suspect, to a great many countries like ours, for whom routine immunization and the […]