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Vaccination catch-up campaign

Find out how vaccines keep your child and community safe.

The COVID-19 outbreak reveals what is at stake when communities do not have the protective shield of immunization against an infectious disease.

Nurses in Kosovo immunizing children when vaccination programme was resumed.

WHO and UNICEF warn of a decline in vaccinations during COVID-19

WHO and UNICEF call for immediate efforts to vaccinate all children as new data shows that, before the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine coverage stalled at 85 per cent for nearly a decade, with 14 million unvaccinated infants yearly

A 4 months old child receives a vaccine

At least 80 million children under one at risk of diseases such as diphtheria, measles and polio as COVID-19 disrupts routine vaccination efforts, warn Gavi, WHO and UNICEF

Agencies call for joint effort to safely deliver routine immunization and proceed with vaccination campaigns against deadly vaccine-preventable diseases.

A 6-month baby receives a delayed vaccine shot at a community health centre in Beijing, China, on 26 March 2020.

As COVID-19 devastates already fragile health systems, over 6,000 additional children under five could die a day, without urgent action

UNICEF launches #Reimagine, a global campaign to prevent the pandemic from becoming a lasting crisis for children

Little girl is being vaccinated in Bacau country, Romania, 2019

COVID-19 pandemic shows the need of vaccines to save lives

Opinion article by Pieter Bult, UNICEF Representative in Romania

Child being vaccinate, Romania

Over 13 million children did not receive any vaccines at all even before COVID-19 disrupted global immunization – UNICEF

Mass measles immunization campaigns suspended in 25 largely high-burden countries due to pandemic

Boy playing with a toy, Romania.

Maintaining routine immunization services vital during the COVID-19 pandemic – WHO and UNICEF

Press note to mark European Immunization Week 2020

Dana, 1.3, held by her mother Inna, doesn’t cry while being administered her first dose of mumps, measles and rubella (MMR) vaccine on 4 April 2018 in Children’s Policlinic №1 in Obolon district, Kyiv, Ukraine.

More than 117 million children at risk of missing out on measles vaccines, as COVID-19 surges

Statement by the Measles & Rubella Initiative: American Red Cross, U.S. CDC, UNICEF, UN Foundation and WHO

Why Didina had her children vaccinated

Why Didina had her children vaccinated

Didina is both mom and dad to her seven children. None of the three fathers ever come to see them. But that, in Didina’s home, has never been an issue.

How mom said yes to vaccines

How mom said yes to vaccines

Over 19,000 people in Romania have been diagnosed with measles since 2016.