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More than numbers: the stories behind immunization in Cuba
There is a quiet and confident atmosphere in the vaccination waiting room at the 28 de enero Polyclinic Center in Havana’s Playa municipality. One-year-old girls and boys, along with their parents, wait to receive one of the vaccines included in the national immunisation schedule: the MMR, which protects against m...
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UNICEF supports the national workshop on vaccine-preventable diseases
HAVANA, 15 July 2024, - The Cuban Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP), with support from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), held a national workshop on vaccine-preventable diseases, a pivotal meeting to strengthen the country's Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI). The workshop brought together provin...
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UNICEF boosted its support for the Expanded Immunization Program in Cuba
Havana, 24 April 2023, . - In its most recent The State of the World's Children 2023: For Every Child, Vaccination report, UNICEF warned that, in the last 10 years, Latin America and the Caribbean has gone from boasting one of the highest routine immunization rates in the world to having one of the lowest, with a ...
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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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Latin America and the Caribbean records world’s biggest drop in childhood vaccination over past decade
PANAMA CITY, , 20 April 2023 –, In the last ten years, Latin America and the Caribbean has gone from having one of the highest rates of childhood vaccination in the world to one of the lowest, UNICEF warned today with the launch of The State of the World’s Children 2023: For Every Child, Vaccination . In Latin Ame...
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Project financed by the Government of Japan and implemented by UNICEF Cuba held an official donation delivery ceremony
Havana, 21 December.-, The official donation delivery ceremony of the project “Strengthening of the health capabilities for the COVID-19 crisis was held at the “Lidia y Clodomira” general clinic in the municipality of Regla, with the presence of Japan’s Ambassador in Cuba His Excellency Mr. Hirata Kenji, UNICEF’s...
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The project “Strenghtening Health Capacity for the COVID–19 Crisis” reaches its first year
Havana, November 24, 2022, – One year after the signing of the project “Strengthening Health Capacity for the COVID-19 Crisis”, led by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Cuba, with funding from the Government of Japan and the participation of Cuban authorities, a meeting was held yesterday to review th...
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UNICEF and WHO warn of ‘perfect storm’ of conditions for measles outbreaks, affecting children
NEW YORK/ GENEVA, 27 April 2022, – An increase in measles cases in January and February 2022 is a worrying sign of a heightened risk for the spread of vaccine-preventable diseases and could trigger larger outbreaks, particularly of measles affecting millions of children in 2022, warn WHO and UNICEF. Pandemic-related disruptions, increasing inequalities in access to vaccines, and…, Top 5 countries with reported measles cases in the last 12 months...
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World Immunization Week: UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Liam Neeson headlines week-long commemoration of global vaccination efforts and calls for greater investment
NEW YORK, 24 April 2022, – UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Liam Neeson is leading UNICEF’s global immunization initiative with a global message thanking the scientists, parents, health workers and others who have been so critical in helping to immunize children over the last two decades. In a video released ahead of ...
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With UNICEF’s support, Cuba’s Expanded Immunization Program held the national Workshop on vaccine-preventable diseases
Havana, March 31 –, Cuba’s Expanded Immunization Program (PAI), with the support of the United Nation Children’s Fund (UNICEF), held the national Workshop on vaccine-preventable diseases on March 29-30, with the participation of representatives from the country’s provinces, the special municipality of Isle of Yout...
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UNICEF maintained support to the National Vaccination and Immunization Program in Cuba in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
Havana, April 22, 2022., - UNICEF maintained support to the National Immunization Program in Cuba in 2021, through the acquisition of the triple viral vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella (MMR). The support was also aimed at the distribution of personal protective equipment and supplies for the strengthening...
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“The vaccines are the hope of meeting my friends normally again”
The pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 brought about a drastic change in everyone’s lives; however, for children and adolescents, it was too long a pause for learning, friends and life. Alejandro Daniel Hernández Pérez is a 15-year-old young man who lives in the Cuban province of Villa Clara. Like for many at his age, ...