After suffering from bouts of malaria as a child, Dr. Aniebo decided fight back by studying malaria drug resistance and its implications for vaccine work as a molecular geneticist. An Exxon Mobil and Wellcome Trust Scholar, Ify is a PhD candidate at Oxford University in Clinical Medicine and Infectious Tropic Diseases. Previously, she worked as …
News that Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni signed a law that will put parents in jail who fail to vaccinate their children has sent ripples through the immunization community. The law also requires that children must have up-to-date immunization cards to attend school. Uganda is not alone. Other governments have taken similar approaches against parents who reject vaccination. …