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UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow visits Chad for the launch of a massive polio immunisation campaign

20th March 2012 | by unicef | Goodwill Ambassador, Vaccination | No Comments

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow recently visited Chad to attend the launch of a massive polio immunization campaign and to raise awareness of the importance of ending polio transmission once and for all. Report by Guy Hubbard. MOUNDOU/N’DJAMENA, Chad. VIDEO: UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow attends the launch of a massive polio vaccination campaign in [...]

UNICEF promotes vaccine pricing transparency

30th May 2011 | by unicef | Vaccination | No Comments

UNICEF is improving transparency around vaccine supply by making vaccine prices available on its website. As the largest buyer of children’s vaccines, this move is in line with UNICEF’s commitment to ensure that vaccine supply is sustainable and affordable. UNICEF’s partners in immunisation welcome the positive development. Information on market dynamics that influence vaccine uptake [...]

Massive measles vaccination campaign under way in Zimbabwe

26th May 2010 | by unicef | Vaccination | No Comments

Field report by Tapuwa Mutseyekwa -In Zimbabwe this week, a huge programme to vaccinate 5 million children against measles, dubbed the national Child Health Days initiative, is kicking off. A growing outbreak of measles in this southern African nation has claimed nearly 400 lives, and 7,000 cases of the dangerous disease have been recorded recently. [...]

In Senegal, UNICEF Executive Director sees impact of community empowerment

21st May 2010 | by unicef | Field Visits, Vaccination | No Comments

Rural outreach on health and human rights Field report by Rouxanna Lokhat  – “I came to vaccinate my baby,” said Anta Ndiou. “This way, she will grow up healthy.” Yesterday, Ms. Anta brought her four month-old daughter Coumba to the Sampathé Health Centre, in a rural district here in Senegal’s rural Thies Region, to be [...]

In Uzbekistan, first polio campaign in eight years targets nearly 3 million children

19th May 2010 | by unicef | Vaccination | No Comments

Field report by Savita Varde-Naqvi. Health authorities in Uzbekistan are working to keep polio at bay following a recent outbreak of the disease in neighbouring Tajikistan. Close to 3 million children under the age of five are being targeted in Uzbekistan’s first national polio campaign since the country was declared polio-free in 2002. Amid a [...]

Immunization drive aims to stop polio, once thought eradicated in Guinea

29th March 2010 | by unicef | Field Visits, Vaccination | No Comments

A boy awaits vaccination in Guinea, where polio is once again threatening young lives. An ongoing immunization drive in the region aims to reach 85 million children under five by the end of 2010. Field report from Gaelle Bausson Yeninka, 5, was born in a poor fishermen’s neighbourhood in the suburbs of Conakry, the Guinean [...]

UNICEF aims to immunize 85 million children against polio in West and Central Africa

9th March 2010 | by unicef | Millennium Development Goals, Vaccination | No Comments

UNICEF aims to immunize 85 million children against polio in West and Central Africa NEW YORK, USA, 5 March 2010 – For children in West and Central Africa, the threat of the crippling disease polio, eradicated in much of the world, still looms.

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow highlights polio in Chad

9th March 2010 | by unicef | Field Visits, Vaccination | No Comments

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow highlights polio in Chad N’DJAMENA, Chad, 8 March 2010 – UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow recently visited Chad to highlight the importance of vaccinating the country’s children against polio.

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