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Malaria research needs a steady supply of mosquitoes, and breeding them involves extreme self-sacrifice from the Shoklo Unit’s carer.

A widely promoted checklist to reduce complications and deaths during surgery is not straightforward to implement in either high- or low-income countries, says new research.…

We need to keep developing new antibiotics to make sure we can keep protecting ourselves from ever-evolving bacteria. Governments, pharmaceutical companies and philanthropy…

This report explores the challenges in regulating the development, production, safety monitoring and approval of vaccines for use across Africa.

Across the world, there are unacceptable disparities in access to Covid-19 vaccines, leaving many vulnerable people unprotected. This paper considers this challenge and sets…

As the climate crisis intensifies, it shrinks and contaminates the water we rely on. We need to act now to reduce the existing and emerging threat that this poses to our…

Wellcome is strongly opposed to slavery and human trafficking. We strive to act ethically and with integrity in all our business dealings and relationships to ensure that…

This report highlights the challenges to equitable access to Covid-19 vaccines, treatments and diagnostic tests, and suggests ways to address them. 

As the World Health Organization (WHO) announces a new variant of concern, we find out what people around the world think about Covid-19 vaccine distribution. 

This report gathers the perspectives of vaccine manufacturers in Africa, highlighting the challenges to scaling up vaccine manufacturing capacity and capabilities, and the…

As the G7 leaders meet in Cornwall this month, we are calling on them to share 1 billion vaccine doses before the end of 2021, starting immediately.

In an open letter ahead of the G7 Summit, our Director Jeremy Farrar and Steven Waugh, Executive Director at the UK Committee for UNICEF (UNICEF UK) urge the UK…

Wellcome comments on the government’s proposed changes to planning rules to make it easier to build laboratories, data centres and digital infrastructure and to consult…

How can vaccine manufacturers in Africa expand their manufacturing capacity and capabilities? Deborah King, Vaccines Lead at Wellcome, highlights five key areas for support…

This paper outlines three areas – global coordination and leadership; financing and how to address key gaps in pandemic infrastructure – that will have the biggest impact on…

We need urgent international action to achieve more equitable global access to Covid-19 vaccines. Countries that have ordered more vaccine …

Ghana and Cote D’Ivoire have become the first countries to receive Covid-19 vaccines through COVAX. Richard Hatchett, CEO at the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness…

From the structure of the atom to the function of our brains, an electric charge is hidden within every organism on earth. Electricity: The spark of life traces the story of…

Antibiotics have been saving millions of lives for decades, but we’ve now reached a point where we need to save antibiotics. A global research strategy funded by Wellcome…

Red blood cells cultured in a laboratory will be trialled in human volunteers for the first time within the next three years, as part of a long-term research programme funded…