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13 February 2024

As cholera remains a concern in the region, UNICEF and partners are working to support vulnerable children and families

Nairobi, 13 February 2024 – Thirteen countries in Eastern and Southern Africa are currently responding to cholera, most recently Comoros, Zimbabwe and Zambia. In some countries, 52 per cent of all cases are children under 15 years, with children under 5 accounting for approximately 40 per cent of deaths and 30 per...

UNICEF highlights a decline in vaccination coverage that leaves children unprotected against childhood diseases

The State of the World’s Children (SOWC) 2023 released ahead of World Immunisation Week, which starts today, reveals that globally, 67 million children missed out on one or more vaccinations over the last three years. This calls for urgent catch-up and recovery to vaccinate these children, and in doing so – save l...

Joining hands with Traditional Leaders

67 million children around the world have missed critical vaccines that can save their lives fueling outbreaks of diseases like measles and polio. If governments don't act now to reach these children, the outbreaks could spread putting the lives of many children at risk. The Government of Zambia has been working t...

07 February 2023

UNICEF Hands Over Cold Chain Equipment to Ministry of Health

LUSAKA, Zambia, 7 February 2023 – UNICEF, in partnership with the German Development Bank (KfW) and Embassy of Germany, today handed over Cold Chain Equipment for a total value of US$ 2.4 million to the Ministry of Health at a ceremony held at the Child Health Unit in Lusaka and officiated by the Minister of Healt...

05 October 2022

The Government of the Republic of Zambia launches a new national COVID-19 vaccination campaign

Under the theme “COVID-19 is not over. Get vaccinated today. Protect yourself, your family and your community”, it will help expand the Ministry of Health ’s COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Programme to increase vaccine coverage to over 70 per cent of the population. Lusaka, 5 October 2022 – The Government of the Repub...

Japan hands over cold chain equipment to strengthen vaccine delivery in Zambia

LUSAKA, Zambia, 4 March 2022 – The Government of Japan, under an emergency partnership with UNICEF, has officially handed over cold chain equipment which will strengthen the long-term capacity of the health system in Zambia, including the delivery of life-saving vaccines for COVID-19. In total, the support include...

01 January 2015

Introduction of Inactivated Polio Vaccine in Routine Immunization - report

The aim of the study is to understand the perceptions of mothers/caregivers, health workers and some opinion leaders have towards multiple injections and acceptability of IPV into the current under-five routine immunization schedule.