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Mom Nasteho is getting baby Dahab Jama his routine childhood vaccinations.

World Immunization Week 2023: Somalia resolves to work on “The Big Catch-Up”

5-month-old Shaifa Ali receives a dose of measles vaccine from a health worker at Jawle Health Centre in Garowe

New data indicates declining confidence in childhood vaccines of up to 44 percentage points in some countries during the COVID-19 pandemic

New UNICEF report shows 67 million children missed out on one or more vaccinations over three years due to service disruption caused by strained health systems and diversion of scarce resources, conflict and fragility, and decreased confidence.

Mom with her child ready for vaccines.

25 January 2023

Somalia launches campaign to vaccinate one million people against cholera

The campaign comes against the backdrop of the drought that has seen a rise in the number of recorded cholera cases

A vaccinator prepares a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine during a UNICEF-supported mobile vaccination campaign in Borama, Somaliland.

Somalia receives 1.6 million J&J COVID-19 vaccine doses from Sweden and the Czech Republic

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Germany contributes US$5 million to Somalia to improve vaccination infrastructure in rural and hard-to-reach areas

Through UNICEF’s global Last Mile Initiative, the contribution aims to scale up COVID-19 vaccination of people living in peri-urban and rural communities and the internally displaced.

Mobile vaccination campaigns for children.

Stepping up humanitarian operations for drought

Cholera vaccination campaign rolled out to protect over 900 000 Somalis in drought-affected districts

UNICEF Somalia Representative assisting with oral polio vaccination

Round 2: The fight against polio continues in Somalia

UNICEF supports vaccine equity through cold chain and systems management

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World Immunization Week 2022: Immunization efforts need a shot in the arm say Somalia’s Government and UN

Joint press release by the Department of Health and Human Services, UNICEF and WHO in Somalia

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26 October 2021

In fight against COVID-19, Germany donates 163,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses to Somalia through COVAX facility

Joint press release by the Department of Health and Human Services, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, UNICEF and WHO in Somalia

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No-one is safe until everyone is safe

Rolling out COVID-19 vaccines to IDP camps in Somaliland