Immunization

A child receives the oral polio vaccine, Pakistan

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Eradicating polio

We are closer than ever to ending polio

17/10/2019

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UNICEF focuses on the hardest to reach and most deprived to achieve the greatest impact for children.

07/06/2018

Two women cross a very high and narrow bridge across a river.

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Immunization and conflict

Children deserve to survive and thrive, including children affected by conflict.

23/04/2018

A group of students hold up card to show their vaccine status

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Immunization programme

Working to realize the right of every woman and every child to immunization with priority for the most vulnerable.

23/04/2018

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One child dies of pneumonia every 39 seconds, agencies warn

Pneumonia – a preventable disease – kills more children than any other infection

11/11/2019

Maisa, 3, receiving oral polio vaccine (OPV) in Al-Hol camp, northeast Syria, as part of a five-day national immunization campaign aiming to reach 2.7 million children across Syria.

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UNICEF and partners provide vaccination against polio and measles for nearly 232,000 children in Syria and Iraq, many affected by violence in northeast Syria

25/10/2019

Health worker Nsiri Lowoso vaccinate three month old Zoe Nukandila as his mom, Arellete Ytshika, hold him, Saturday 10 Nov, 2018 at the Centre De Sante Le Rocher Maternity in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo. He was vaccinated against measles and rubella, tetanus and polio.

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As measles deaths in the Democratic Republic of the Congo top 4,000, UNICEF rushes medical kits to health centers and vaccinates thousands more children

09/10/2019

Madagascar. A boy checks his arm after receiving a vaccination.

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Keeping families informed and children healthy

A researcher in Madagascar discusses "some of the noblest work a person can do"

06/09/2019

Dana, 15 months, held by her mother Inna, 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.

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20 million children missed out on lifesaving measles, diphtheria and tetanus vaccines in 2018

New estimates find dangerous stagnation of global vaccination rates, due to conflict, inequality and complacency

15/07/2019

On 23 April 2019 in Cucuta in Colombia, Sahid ALexander Valero (4 months old) receives one of the four vaccines he got this day ( Rotavirus, polio, the pentavalent, and neumococus) on a health center supported by UNICEF in Cucuta, Colombian border with Venezuela. His mother, Belmar Moncada carried him for two and a half hours from El Tachira, in Venezuela, to this point. "This is very important hes benefiting, so he wont get sick, he wont get any kind of illness. And to have him healthy, to have him warm th

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Mass campaign to vaccinate over 3 million children against polio kicks off in Venezuela

14/07/2019

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