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For every child, vaccination

Regional brief, State of the World’s Children 2023

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Ely cuddling her youngest, Titian, 3 weeks old.

New UNICEF report shows 12.7 million children in Africa missed out on one or more vaccinations over three years

COVID-19 caused service disruption, strained health systems, diverted scarce resources, while conflicts, climate change have driven this decline on the continent.

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Human-Centred Design Helps Address Immunization Demand

Rwanda HCD Workshop Series’ Case Study

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An infant receives an injection into the thigh

UNICEF and the African Council of Religious Leaders discuss Immunization take up across Eastern and Southern Africa

Polio immunisation campaign begins in four countries after case confirmed in Malawi – UNICEF

31 December 2021

UNICEF Malawi Immunization and Nutrition Supplies Budget Process Mapping

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A young girl gets vaccinated in the Northern Red Sea region.

Eritrea maintains high immunization coverage despite COVID

The country sustains one of the highest immunization rates in the region

A child is vaccinated against measles at the DFID and UNICEF-supported Nutrition Health Centre in Hargeisa, Somaliland on 3rd February 2021.

Q&A with Gabriele Fontana

UNICEF’s Regional Advisor for Health discusses challenges and concerns related to routine childhood immunization

Shipment of vaccines unloaded onto airport tarmac

340,000 doses of COVAX vaccines due in Rwanda today

Air freight carrying the vaccines supplied through the COVAX facility arrives in Kigali

A police officer stands watch as the first batch of the COVID - 19 vaccine consignment is offloaded on the tarmac at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya

Over 1 million COVID-19 vaccine doses arrive in Nairobi

Marking the start of Kenya’s vaccination campaign