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A young girl smiles

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.

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

A woman receives an injection into the upper arm

01 December 2022

SBC Works! Zimbabwe

Interfaith dialogue to mobilize faith groups to influence social norms change and promote the uptake of COVID-19 vaccines

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A boy waiting to be immunized stands smiling by a tree, at the Elabered Health Centre in Anseba Region.

Delivering immunization services to outreach posts -Eritrea

Twelve different kinds of vaccines administered to children

07 December 2021

European Union provides fresh funding to support COVID-19 vaccination in sub-Saharan Africa

The programme will reach more than 189 million people

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