Vaccines

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

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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Remarks by Henrietta Fore, UNICEF Executive Director, at the opening of a UN high-level event to tackle misinformation and champion children’s right to immunization, New York,

01/07/2019

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Leaving no one behind

All children immunized and healthy

27/06/2019

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UN Headquarters to host groundbreaking discussion on vaccine misinformation and growing distrust

Experts, UN officials and private sector representatives to convene to address drivers of vaccine hesitancy and stagnating immunization rates worldwide

27/06/2019

A mother holds her daughter while a doctor administers a vaccine, Ukraine

Article

Measles explained: What’s behind the recent outbreaks?

Reported cases of measles rose by 300 per cent in the first three months of 2019

17/05/2019

Vaccination in Mali: a mother holds her daughter and a vaccination certificate.

Article

Swapping motorcycles for donkeys to deliver vaccines in Mali

Amidst growing insecurity, health workers do what it takes to vaccinate children

14/05/2019

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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Over 20 million children worldwide missed out on measles vaccine annually in past 8 years, creating a pathway to current global outbreaks - UNICEF

24/04/2019

Photo Essay

The undeniable power of vaccines

As Ukraine faces one of the world’s worst measles outbreaks, doctors and parents work together to dispel myths about vaccines

23/04/2019

A woman holds her daughter on her lap, Philippines

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Fighting a measles outbreak in the Philippines

Information and immunization campaigns aim to reverse plummeting vaccine coverage rates

22/04/2019

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