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Progress from the pandemic:
On a sweltering day in June 2022, three generations of women in the same family arrived outside a small rural grocery store where a team of vaccinators had temporarily set up a one-stop shop for protection against disease. Beneath a shady tree, Satha, the baby, was immunized against measles and rubella. Her mother...
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New data indicates declining confidence in childhood vaccines of up to 44 percentage points in some countries during the COVID-19 pandemic
NEW YORK, , 20 April 2023 –, The public, perception of the importance of vaccines for children declined during the COVID-19 pandemic in 52 out of 55 countries studied, UNICEF warned today in a new report on immunization. The State of the World’s Children 2023: For Every Child, Vaccination reveals the perception of...
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Ensuring access to routine vaccinations for children during COVID-19
Santepheap Commune in Stung Treng Province is about as remote as Cambodia gets. This beautiful, densely forested area sits at Cambodia’s northernmost limit, tucked tightly against the border with Laos. Sparsely populated, most of the villages here are only connected by dirt tracks, which often turn to rivers of mu...
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Celebrating the vaccine champions on World Health Day
©UNICEF Cambodia/2021/Bunsak But, SEM SONY, “Protection is a step by step process,” says Doctor Sem Sony. Dr. Sony was one of the first wave of Cambodian doctors to be trained in management and administering of the new COVID-19 vaccines, and has spent weeks working on the frontlines providing medical advice to patients who have come in to get vaccinated. “The first step was getting…, NOEUN RIMA, “I wasn’t nervous about the vaccine at all, it’s a ...