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24 December 2024

Ending outbreaks through solidarity and community spirit

“ Start from scratch talaga kami. Walang gamit, walang BP, walang gamot (We really started from scratch. We didn’t have equipment, blood pressure monitoring tool, medication),” Malidegao National Immunization Program (NIP) Coordinator Sarah Krisna Ali said as she recalled the first few months of the transition of...

24 October 2024

Philippines no longer in the top 5 list of unvaccinated children

MANILA 24 October, 2024 – Today, on World Polio Day, World Health Organization and UNICEF Philippines commends the Philippine government for reducing the number of children without a single dose of vaccines in the country. The UN children’s agency also welcomes the success of the school-based immunization programm...

04 September 2024

UNICEF in Action Against Measles in BARMM

Early this year, the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), together with UNICEF, embarked on a Measles Outbreak Response Immunization campaign as measles cases in the region increased to more than 500 in the first quarter of 2024, which is half of the cases reported for almost the entire 2023. T...

With Vaccines, We Can

Marawi City, Lanao del Sur, 29 April 2024 – Instead of picking up passengers, tricycle driver Abdullah Mampao stays at the barangay (village) gymnasium to be with his wife and their two youngest children, who are getting measles shots from healthcare workers. “I make sure my children get all the vaccines that they...

Faith Leaders Allay Vaccine Fears amid Measles Outbreak

Marawi City, Lanao del Sur, 26 April 2024 – Standing in the mihrab (a semicircular niche in the wall), Sheik Mohammad Bani speaks to more than 50 Muslims. “We must protect ourselves from contagious and deadly diseases, such as Covid, polio and measles,” says the imam (worship leader) during the Friday congregation...

Building Bright Futures: Protecting Children Through Vaccination

MANILA, 25 April 2024 – Since January 2024, over 600 cases of measles, locally referred to as tigdas or abas , have been reported in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), about 550 miles (900 km) south of Manila. Measles, transmitted via respiratory droplets, poses high risk to children and ...

Measles and pertussis outbreaks a wake-up call for the Philippines

COTABATO/MANILA, 24 April 2024—As the world commemorates World Immunization Week starting today, the Philippines is experiencing measles outbreaks in the Bangsamoro region and pertussis outbreaks in parts of Luzon and Visayas, while nearly 70 per cent of provinces and cities 2 are at high risk of polio. All three ...

Frontliners in Measles Outbreak

Marawi City, Lanao del Sur, 22 April 2024 – “I walk under the sun, enduring hunger and thirst, and then some parents would just turn me away,” says Cairon Guro while stifling her tears. As the midwife of a barangay (village), she has to visit houses to give vaccines to children as measles cases continue to surge i...

Fighting Measles in Marawi

Marawi City, Lanao del Sur, 19 April 2024 – At Basak Malutlut, a densely populated barangay (village) in this city, about 800 kilometers south of the national capital, Manila, Ramona Pascual walks quickly along business establishments, avoiding every now and then the various merchandise displayed on the pavement. ...

DOH, WHO, UNICEF Celebrate 50 Years of Immunization in the Philippines Amidst Global Concerns Over Disease Outbreaks

MANILA, 19 April 2024  – This year’s celebration of World Immunization Week marks the 50 years of the Essential Programme on Immunization (EPI), a global endeavor to ensure equitable access to life-saving vaccines for every child, regardless of their geographic location and socioeconomic status. Through its local ...

Old beliefs hinder vaccination in Basilan

Basilan, 05 April 2024 – As a barangay health worker, Jesel Idris sometimes goes around the village to convince mothers to have their children vaccinated. Whenever she encounters resistance, she’s not surprised, for she herself has not been able to have her children fully immunized. Idris Idris serves as a health...

1.3 million children in Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao in need of protection from highly infectious measles spread

COTABATO/MANILA, 28 March 2024  –  A major immunization drive in early April will reach over 1.3 million children in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) following the alarming surge in measles cases with 77 per cent of the confirmed cases in the Philippines being reported from this region. ...