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UNICEF-supported Community Health Workers play a key role as Pakistan strives for a polio-free future for every child. Widowed at 28 in Pakistan, Reshma (name changed to protect her privacy) became a UNICEF-supported Community Health Worker, going door to door to vaccinate children in her community from polio, to ...

Under the banner of ‘The Big Catch-Up’, WHO – the World Health Organization - and partners will support countries to get back on track so that more children and adults are protected from preventable diseases.  The pandemic saw essential immunization levels decrease in over 100 countries, leading to rising ...

The management of the UAE Project to Aid Pakistan announced the results of the UAE campaign for polio vaccination, which was implemented in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan during the period from 2014 until the end of September 2022, where the campaign succeeded in giving 647 million and 758 ...

In 2021, essential, routine immunizations for children worldwide fell to their lowest levels since 2008, according to new data released by UNICEF and the World Health Organization. What happened, why it matters — and what needs to happen next to turn things around. A baby receives a routine vaccination ...

Conflict, climate change & COVID-19 threaten decades of progress in childhood immunization. UNICEF is working to protect every child. Mary Yandiru hugs her baby, Edgar, outside Dramba Health Center III in Uganda's Yumbe district. Edgar receives his routine immunizations at the health center, which is equipped with a solar-powered ...

In implementation of the directives of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the State, and the support of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, and with the follow-up of His ...

We have been here before: Lessons learned in the fight against polio are informing the global COVID-19 response.  Health workers and volunteers participate in a polio immunization campaign in Kaduna, Nigeria in 2019. © Rotary International By Meghan Doetschman, Global Cause Partnerships, UNICEF USA and Stephanie Jacquier, Global Philanthropy, ...

GENEVA — A UN-led global immunization strategy was unveiled on Monday to reach more than 50 million children who have missed lifesaving jabs against diseases such as measles, yellow fever and diptheria, in large part because of COVID-19 disruption.“Even before the pandemic, there were worrying signs that we were ...

An alliance of international health agencies has warned that up to 228 million people, mostly children, are at risk from serious disease after the Covid pandemic derailed around 60 mass immunization campaigns in 50 countries. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the Gavi vaccines alliance and the World Health ...