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Vanuatu

Children in Mitengo, Lilongwe looking onto the drones for cholera activities being undertaken by UNICEF.
Programme
10/23/2018
Drones
Read more about how UNICEF is applying drone and UAV technologies.
Baby Joy given vaccine delivered by drone
Press release
12/19/2018
Small Drones, Big Leaps for Global Health
See the world's first-ever drone-delivered vaccine in Vanuatu
Joseph Hing and Rebecca Olul of Unicef demonstrated a drone to children on the island of Epi, part of Vanuatu. The drone will be used to deliver vaccines to remote areas.
Link
12/18/2018
Vaccines Delivered by Drone in Vanuatu
An island nation starts a health experiment to reach the most remote.
drones laying on the ground
Link
11/12/2018
Revolutionizing Healthcare for the Most Remote
Drones will take delicate drugs to dozens of remote villages in test that could be replicated around the world
Swoop Aero drone comes into land at Cook’s Bay, after taking off from Dillon’s Bay and flying 25 minutes over the mountainous terrain, to deliver vaccines to the registered nurse, Miriam Nampil, who is waiting to vaccinate 13 children.
Article
10/25/2018
Commercial Contracts for Vaccine Delivery
International drone companies bring lifesaving vaccines to remote rural islands
Midwife Roslinda Narawayan, Vaimali Health Centre, Epi Island. Roslinda and her assistant on a 3 hour hike down the coastline to deliver vaccines for an MCH clinic at Ngala village.
Article
07/28/2017
Drones For Good: Participants in Vanuatu Drone Trials
Six candidates test the capabilities of their drones to deliver lifesaving vaccines
Swoop Aero Drone successfully completing its first scored flight as part of the Vanuatu Vaccine delivery by drone trials.
Article
06/14/2017
Vanuatu Launches the Pacific's First Drone Trial
Testing Remotely Piloted Aerial Systems (RPAS) to deliver lifesaving vaccines to remote, inaccessible communities
Susan Ryle Chargée d’Affaires, Australian High Commission in Vanuatu with Sheldon Yett UNICEF Pacific Representative, and Hon. Jack Norris Kalmet Minister of Health Vanuatu with representatives of the drone contractors, nurses Dominc Bule and Roslinda Takrawan and children of SMART sistas at the launch of the Vanuatu Drone trails for Vaccine delivery, Efate Island, Vanuatu.
Article
06/11/2017
Vanuatu: Technology for LIfesaving Vaccine Delivery
UNICEF working with the Government on Vanuatu to save lives in inaccessible remote islands

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