'One in six cancers worldwide are caused by infection'

Source: BBC News

One in six cancers - two million a year globally - are caused by largely treatable or preventable infections, new estimates suggest. 

GAVI man's mission to immunize every kid on earth

Source: Reuters

Seth Berkley was a young epidemiologist working for the U.S. State Department when he saw the graves left behind after measles swept through refugee camps in Sudan during the 1985 famine.

Ghana pioneers new child vaccines

Source: BBC

 Ghana has become the first country in Africa to start protecting children against two of the continent's deadliest infant diseases with simultaneous vaccinations. The chief executive of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (Gavi), Dr Seth Berkley, told the BBC the combined treatment has become possible thanks to adequate health facilities in Ghana, combined with sufficient stocks of vaccine, and robust international funding.