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Africa 2.0 provides an important history of how two technologies - mobile calling and internet - were made available to millions of sub-Saharan Africans, and the impact they have had on their lives.

"...collaborative multisectoral partnerships, use of different avenues to curate key COVID-19 vaccine concerns and use of diverse dissemination strategies..." There have been substantial amounts of misinformation about the importance, safety, and effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccine.

"Effective peer educators can normalize HPV vaccination while enabling frank and open discussion of stigmatized topics like sexual health." Developing effective human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine interventions is particularly important in rural areas, whose residents have lower rates of HPV vaccination and higher cervical cancer incidence and morta

I am a Medical Laboratory Scientist from Nigeria with high skill in malaria diagnosis. Ive attended many trainings in malaria diagnosis including the use of molecular techniques.

"The use of peer-to-peer education should be encouraged and consistently adopted to improve knowledge of pertinent health issues among young people." Peer education is an approach to health promotion in which community members are supported to promote health-enhancing change among their peers.

"As the struggle to achieve Agenda 2030 takes on ever greater urgency, the role of independent media in achieving the SDGs [Sustainable Development Goals] is crucial." This brief, published by the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF), explores the role of media in driving change towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

"Vaccine hesitancy and anti-vaccine movements have existed since vaccines were first discovered....Although research data have been available in the last decade identifying the causes, consequences, and impacts of vaccination hesitancy, there is still an urgent need to further understand and address public apprehension about vaccines." An increasin

"Social listening provides invaluable, objective metrics that can inform data-driven decisions of resilient health care system." To help boost COVID-19 vaccination rates in Malawi, VillageReach is working with the Ministry of Health (MoH) to listen to the concerns of citizens, compile data about misinformation and information gaps, and inform data-

Anita Shet, MD, PhD is a pediatrician and a public health specialist and Director of Child Health at the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

"...It used to be a challenge before because people thought it was a waste of time to come and listen to you.... So, we were helped by village and hamlet leaders, village and ward executive officers and they know about the TA [USAID Tulonge Afya] project." - civil society organisation, Newala District