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A child receives the oral polio vaccine, Pakistan
Programme
10/17/2019
Eradicating polio
We are closer than ever to ending polio
Statement
10/27/2020
UNICEF Statement on the killing of two humanitarian workers in Mogadishu, Somalia
Statement from Jesper Moller, UNICEF Somalia Representative a.i.
On 10 September 2020 in Ghana, a polio vaccination team shares a lighter moment with the photographer on their way back from a door-to-door polio vaccination campaign in Kumasi city, Ashanti region.
Photo Essay
10/22/2020
Staying strong in the fight against polio
COVID-19 will not deter our efforts to provide life-saving vaccines
Ghana. Items from an anti-polio campaign.
Link
09/14/2020
Fighting polio in the time of COVID-19
Africa has been certified free of wild poliovirus. But the fight continues on the continent against another strain of the virus
Statement
09/11/2020
Polio programme accelerates efforts to respond to new polio outbreaks in Sudan and Yemen
Joint statement by WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean Region Dr Ahmed Al Mandhari and UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa Region Ted Chaiban
Children are being vaccinated against polio during the resumed polio vaccination activities in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
Press release
08/11/2020
Polio vaccination campaigns resume in Afghanistan and Pakistan after COVID-19 disruptions leave 50 million children unimmunized
Sadia Saleem, a proud helpline agent.
Article
05/08/2020
‘Call 1166’: The COVID-19 helpline centre in Pakistan
Creating a vital support system during a difficult time
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
Press release
07/14/2019
Mass campaign to vaccinate over 3 million children against polio kicks off in Venezuela
A woman in a niqab, Afghanistan
Photo Essay
10/24/2018
Women on a mission: Eradicating polio in Afghanistan
In an area of Afghanistan where women are often forbidden to work, Afia leads a team of polio vaccinators going door-to-door to reach every last child
A child is given oral polio vaccine, Afghanistan
Photo Essay
02/22/2018
Eradicating polio in Afghanistan
Female vaccination mobilizers lead a social revolution.