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Increases in vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks threaten years of progress, warn WHO, UNICEF, Gavi
GENEVA/NEW YORK/DAKAR, 24 April 2025 –, Immunization efforts are under growing threat as misinformation, population growth, humanitarian crises, and funding cuts jeopardize progress and leave millions of children, adolescents, and adults at risk, warn WHO, UNICEF, and Gavi during World Immunization Week, 24-30 Apr...
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Adapting Health Information Systems for the Big Catch-up in Cameroon
Adapting digital health information systems to meet Big Catch-Up (BCU) requirements is crucial for streamlining immunization efforts. By aligning BCU RTM with existing digital immunization systems, countries can strengthen their health systems, avoid the creation of parallel systems, and achieve a more accurate un...
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Sahel, Lake Chad Basin countries coordinate joint polio eradication plan
Brazzaville/Dakar, 13/09/2024 , — In a significant move to combat the ongoing challenge of variant poliovirus transmission in Central and West Africa, Ministers of Health from the Lake Chad Basin countries and Sahel sub-region have published this week a comprehensive cross-border coordination plan for 2024/2025. T...
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Global childhood immunization levels stalled in 2023 leaving many without life-saving protection
15 July 2024 | Dakar/New York, – Global childhood immunization coverage stalled in 2023, leaving 2.7 million additional children un- and under-vaccinated compared to pre-pandemic levels in 2019, according to data published today by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF. The latest WHO and UNICEF estimates...
Campaign
World Immunization Week 2024
Vaccines are one of the most effective public health interventions that exist., In the last 50 years alone, vaccines have saved, 154 million lives, . That’s, 6 people every minute, , for five decades. As the journey to protect every child through immunization continues in Africa and around the world, UNICEF invi...
Flagship report
Immunization Regional Snapshot for West and Central Africa in 2022
A regional snapshot of immunization coverage and trends in West and Central Africa.
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Childhood immunization begins recovery after COVID-19 backslide
GENEVA/NEW YORK,, 18 July 2023, – Global immunization services reached 4 million more children in 2022 compared to the previous year, as countries stepped up efforts to address the historic backsliding in immunization caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to data published today by the World Health Organizati...
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18 million doses of first-ever malaria vaccine allocated to 12 African countries for 2023–2025: Gavi, WHO and UNICEF
Geneva/New York, 5 July 2023 –, Twelve countries across different regions in Africa are set to receive 18 million doses of the first-ever malaria vaccine over the next two years. The roll out is a critical step forward in the fight against one of the leading causes of death in the continent. The allocations have b...
Annual report
UNICEF São Tomé and Príncipe 2022 Annual Report
In 2022, UNICEF and its partners continued to sustain critical programme interventions for transforming children's lives in Sao Tomé e Principe. Despite the aftermath of the pandemic and the global impact of the war in Ukraine, significant results were achieved for children. Check the UNICEF Sao Tomé e Principe 20...
Flagship report
The State of the World's Children 2023
Globally, an estimated 67 million children missed out entirely or partially on routine immunization from 2019 to 2021. In West and Central Africa, this figure is 19.5 million children. As these children pass the age when vaccines are routinely given, it will require a dedicated effort to ensure that they catch up ...
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New UNICEF report shows 12.7 million children in Africa missed out on one or more vaccinations over three years
Dakar/Nairobi/Johannesburg, 20 April 2023 –, UNICEF’s The State of the World’s Children 2023: For Every Child, Vaccination reveals today that 12.7 million children in Africa missed out on one or more vaccinations over three years. In the world, a total of 67 million children missed out on vaccinations between 2019...
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Multiple and simultaneous epidemics on the rise in West and Central Africa
DAKAR/CONAKRY, 16 November 2022, - The increase in simultaneous epidemics in West and Central Africa over the past few years stresses the urgency of rethinking how to deal with these epidemics among children and communities, including through strengthening prevention, improving synergies among all basic services and pooling resources, stated UNICEF during the Forum on the…, For more information, please contact:, UNICEF Guinea: Sibylle Desjardins,...