Peddling by hand, Mulasi Huesseini forces her wheelchair through the sand and into the eastern village of Kasambondo. Her friends walk alongside, carrying their babies. One of them also carries Ms. Husseini’s 4-month-old son, Lubumba. Report by Guy Hubbard. KASAMBONDO VILLAGE/NYUNZU/MUKAWA VILLAGE, Democratic Republic of the Congo. VIDEO: 20 February 2012 – UNICEF reports on [...]
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In DR Congo, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow encourages polio vaccination in reluctant communities
29th February 2012 | by unicef | Immunisation | No Comments
Polio immunization campaign to reach millions in Democratic Republic of the Congo
16th May 2011 | by unicef | Immunisation | No Comments
UNICEF reports on a mass immunization campaign against polio in Democratic Republic of the Congo. Severine Nabintu, age 35, brought her six-month old child to the launch two weeks ago of a national immunization campaign against polio in South Kivu province in DR Congo. “I’ve brought my child to vaccinate him and protect him from [...]
UNICEF and partners respond to re-emergence of polio in DR Congo
9th November 2010 | by unicef | Immunisation | No Comments
Immunization rounds aim to reach 11 million children in high-risk areas KANANGA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 8 November 2010 – Kasai Occidental Province is the epicentre of a recent polio outbreak in the DR Congo, and the provincial capital Kananga is where a three-day immunization drive began at the end of October. Its aim: [...]
Rwanda takes on a silent killer
5th May 2010 | by unicef | Immunisation | No Comments
This week, from the capital of Kigali to the countryside, kids in Rwanda will receive a major kick start to their chances for a healthy future as UNICEF supports that nation’s Mother and Child Health Week. Through mass mobilizations of medical services and lifesaving interventions, UNICEF and Rwandans will work together to deliver child immunizations, [...]
Liberating Liberia from polio and measles
4th May 2010 | by unicef | Immunisation | No Comments
MONROVIA, Liberia, 28 April 2010 – “Don’t cry, baby. This will keep you healthy and strong,” Princess Togba told her eight-month-old daughter, Agatha, as the baby received two drops of oral polio vaccine. Agatha joined hundreds of infants and young children, and their parents, at the Redemption Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia’s capital, to kick start [...]
Sharing a smile…
4th May 2010 | by unicef | Immunisation | No Comments
Four-year-old polio survivor Clako Ali smiles inside a UNICEF-supported centre for people with disabilities in Chad. Clako contracted polio and is wearing leg braces. Earlier this year, UNICEF launched a national immunization campaign aimed protecting 2.2 million children under five against the debilitating disease.
Fight against African polio outbreak enters second round
1st May 2010 | by unicef | Immunisation | No Comments
More than 77 million children to be immunised across 16 countries The critical second round of a synchronised effort to stop a polio outbreak across west and central Africa is underway, targeting more than 77 million children in 16 countries for vaccination. Only Burkina Faso and Sierra Leone have had to postpone their campaigns until [...]
Nigeria immunizes millions of children in a renewed effort to eradicate polio
19th April 2010 | by unicef | Immunisation | No Comments
Nigeria recently joined 19 other countries in West and Central Africa in a synchronized campaign to immunise more than 85 million children under the age of five against polio. In four days last month, Nigeria immunised more than 45.5 million children, part of the effort to kick polio out of the African continent. The 57 [...]
Reaching mobile populations with polio vaccine in India
16th April 2010 | by unicef | Immunisation | No Comments
LUCKNOW, India, 14 April 2010 – A recent polio immunization campaign in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh succeeded in treating some of the most difficult-to-reach families in this area – mobile labourers. In Aligarh district, an extended nomadic family of 25 adults and 10 children set up tents in an open space off the [...]
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