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WHO and UNICEF welcome first delivery of essential childhood cancer medicines to Nepal under Global Platform Initiative
KATHMANDU, 16 February 2025 –, The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF celebrate a significant milestone in Nepal's fight against childhood cancer with the arrival of the first batch of essential cancer medicines under the Global Platform for Access to Childhood Cancer Medicines (GPACCM) . The GPACCM or the Global Platform, a partnership between WHO and St. Jude…, Notes to Editors:, The Global Platform for Access to Childhood Cancer Medi...
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The power of reaching every child
Surkhet, Nepal:, Bipana BK remembers the first time she came across little Mohammad Ayan. The second among three children in a family living in Birendranagar in Surkhet District in western Nepal, he was a small, bright-eyed child, almost two years of age. Upon talking to father Mohammad Ajaj and mother Sannam Khat...
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A pushback against vaccine hesitancy
A woman taking note while talking with another local woman, Kailali, Nepal:, Priya Baral says that despite having been trained to expect it, she was still taken aback by the lack of awareness about vaccines among certain families she met in the course of working in Dhangadhi Sub-Metropolitan City (SMC) in Kailali District in far-western Nepal. “We found children who had never been vaccinated all their lives,” she says. “…, A total of 267 missed-...
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What you need to know about a COVID-19 vaccine
Vaccines for COVID-19 are critical tools for helping bring the pandemic under control when combined with effective testing and existing prevention measures. With several promising vaccine candidates in the pipeline, some under review for approval and the Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines app...
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Getting immunization back on track
Kathmandu, Nepal:, Gulshan Nesa was very concerned her young children would miss getting the measles-rubella vaccine during the COVID-19 nation-wide lockdown. On the one hand, the family had lost a great deal of business because the clothes shop they run was closed the whole time. But more than that, as a parent o...
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Over 20 million children worldwide missed out on measles vaccine annually in past 8 years, creating a pathway to current global outbreaks – UNICEF
KATHMANDU, 25 April 2019, – An estimated 169 million children in the world missed out on the first dose of the measles vaccine between 2010 and 2017, or 21.1 million children a year on average, UNICEF said today. Widening pockets of unvaccinated children have created a pathway to the measles outbreaks hitting seve...
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Village by Village, District by District
It takes a village to immunize a child, March 2016:, It was an overcast morning in Barpak Village Development Committee (VDC). Clouds hung low in this VDC perched in a mountainous ridge of northern part of Gorkha District, almost 180 km away from Kathmandu. As a shrill voice of village messenger (locally known as ...