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Expansion of vaccine storage capacity in Gabon's new warehouse inaugurated at Nkembo hospital
Libreville, March 25, 2024: The Immunization Program (PEV) vaccine storage warehouse at Nkembo Hospital has undergone significant upgrades and expansion thanks to the collaborative efforts of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) with funding from the Government of Japan. The revamped facilities will triple ...
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The teams have been mobilized to ensure that every child in every village has been vaccinated
For the past 4 years, Ladislas Angouo, the Laboratory Manager at the Lambaréné Urban Centre, has been supporting the Intensified Vaccination Activities (IVA) in Moyen-Ogooué. This year, he supervised a team of moving vaccinators in the Chad-Lambaréné region. He is a naturally enthusiastic person and he encouraged ...
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U-REPORTERS have leaped into action to encourage Gabonese people to get vaccinated
As part of an intensive vaccination campaign organized in Gabon from the 4th to the 13th of July, the UNICEF Gabon office has called on its U-REPORTERS to encourage the population to get vaccinated. The experience of the COVID-19 pandemic left many people with doubts about vaccines and their safety, so U-REPORTERS...
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Japan allocates 3 million US dollars to UNICEF to improve the cold chain for preserving and storing vaccines in Gabon
Like many countries across the world, COVID-19 is also a concern for public health in Gabon. The government not only introduced measures to prevent the spread of the virus and manage the pandemic, but also developed a national vaccination strategy which was launched on 23 March 2021 and continues to be rolled out ...
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Gabon receives 100,620 Doses of Pfizer Vaccines Shipped through COVAX Mechanism
Gabon receives 100,620 doses of Pfizer vaccines donated by the USA on 23 September 2021. This first delivery of vaccines through the COVAX initiative, indicates a significant step for Gabon, henceforth among the 47 African countries to have benefited from this initiative and whose objective is to vaccinate 50% of ...