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Dr Priscilla, UNICEF Paediatrician and Health Specialist, checks the pulse of Ebenezer, 3, at a UNICEF-supported health centre, in eastern Ghana.

How most of pneumonia deaths can be prevented

This World Pneumonia Day we look at a new innovative health system strengthening approach that is saving children’s lives in Ghana.

Arthur Osuji, UNICEF Ghana Supply and Logistics Specialist, in May 2021

Behind the history of the first COVAX vaccine shipment

Meet Arthur Osuji, UNICEF Ghana Supply and Logistics Specialist, who tells about his work behind the first COVAX delivery and the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out.

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First COVID-19 COVAX vaccine doses administered in Africa

This week’s first vaccinations happen as a further 11 million doses are expected to be delivered this week

On 24 February 2021, a plane carrying the first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines distributed by the COVAX Facility lands at Kotoka International Airport in Accra, Ghana's capital.

The first shipment of COVAX vaccines

Historic images of the first delivery of COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX Facility to Ghana and of the operation in India and Dubai that led to this milesto

UNICEF Representative in Ghana Anne-Claire Dufay at the arrival of the first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines distributed by the COVAX Facility, in Accra, Ghana, on 24 February 2021.

COVID-19 vaccine doses shipped by the COVAX Facility head to Ghana, marking beginning of global rollout

On 24 February 2021, a UNICEF staff inspects the first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines distributed by the COVAX Facility at Kotoka International Airport in Accra, Ghana's capital.

Ghana becomes recipient of historic first shipment of COVAX vaccine

Statement by UNICEF Representative in Ghana, Anne-Claire Dufay and WHO Representative to Ghana, Dr Francis Kasolo on the arrival of the first COVID-19 vaccines in Accra