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Hospital Corpsman in the Preventive Medicine Department at Naval Health Clinic Hawaii (NHCH), administers the second dose of the Pfizer BionNTech COVID-19 vaccine to Petty Officer First Class Callie Long, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam Security Forces, on Jan. 8, 2020 at Bloch Arena on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. NHCH is following the Department of Defense's (DoD) phased, standardized, and coordinated approach to administering COVID-19 vaccines. The strategy was developed in collaboration with Operation Warp Speed, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the DOD’s COVID Task Force assessment of unique mission requirements.
Amarich Berhanu breastfeeding her child at Chalaba Silassie health post Bishoftu, Oromia Region Tuesday, 6 August 2019. ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2019/Mulugeta Ayene
British Rotarians take immunize children in the streets of Lucknow during a round of the polio immunization campaign in Northern India. .Rotarians Bernice Yates, Pam Joyce and Jackie Berry work at a polio vaccination booths on the first day of the campaign..The drive is part of the campaign to eradicate polio in India and target the high-risk area of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. (photo Jean-Marc Giboux)
RagPicker slum in the Radjhani district of Lucknow. .The slums is inhabited by Bangali migrants who recycle plastic, papers and other materials from trash for resale. They are moslem orginally from Bangladesh and Assam, and are at the lower end of the social ladder, living in slums without sanitation or running water..India has been engaged in a campaign to eradicate polio in India which target the high-risk area of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. (photo Jean-Marc Giboux)
Official Launch of the Polio Sub-NID, at the India Islamic Center in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, with Mullana Khalid Rasheed and District Magistrate A.K. Ghosh and visiting british rotarians , on November 8, 2009 . (photo Jean-Marc Giboux)
Twenty-five percent of children who die each year die from diseases that can be prevented by vaccination. USAID contributes $3.5 million each year to polio vaccination efforts in the DRC through the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and USAID’s Integrated Health Project.
Vingt-cinq pourcent d’enfants qui meurent chaque année meurent des maladies qui peuvent être prévenues avec une vaccination. L’USAID contribue avec 3,5 millions de dollars chaque année aux efforts de vaccination en RDC à travers l’Organisation Mondiale de la Santé (OMS), l’UNICEF, et le projet de santé intégré de l’USAID.
Photo by Kaukab Jhumra Smith/USAID
There have been no new cases of wild polio virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo since December 2011, a marked contrast from a high of 100 cases in 2010. World Immunizations Week, April 24 to 30, 2015, presented an opportunity to celebrate this exciting public health milestone and offered a chance to commit to reaching all the children who have not yet been vaccinated against preventable diseases. USAID contributes $3.5 million each year to polio vaccination efforts in the DRC through the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and USAID’s Integrated Health Project. USAID also supports immunizations worldwide through direct support to GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance.
On April 28, 2015, in Mbankana, Kinshasa province, USAID officials joined the Prime Minister of the DRC, Augustin Matata Ponyo, the DRC Minister of Health, Dr. Felix Kabange Numbi, and representatives from GAVI and other international donors, at a ceremony at a newly built health center. The event honored DRC’s efforts to remain polio-free and launched a fleet of new refrigerated trucks for the safe transport of vaccines to remote areas of the country.
Premier John Horgan, Adrian Dix, Minister of Health, Dr. Bonnie Henry, Provincial Health Officer, and Dr. Penny Ballem, executive lead for B.C.’s immunization plan, announce that more than 400,000 people in British Columbia will be immunized from March to early April as the Province moves into Phase 2 of the largest immunization rollout in B.C.’s history.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2021PREM0015-000355
RagPicker slum in the Radjhani district of Lucknow. .The slums is inhabited by Bangali migrants who recycle plastic, papers and other materials from trash for resale. They are moslem orginally from Bangladesh and Assam, and are at the lower end of the social ladder, living in slums without sanitation or running water..India has been engaged in a campaign to eradicate polio in India which target the high-risk area of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. (photo Jean-Marc Giboux)
Josiane Pierre, a health worker, visiting Luima, a pregnant woman, and her sister who is a school girl.
Photo Credit: Karen Kasmauski/MCSP and Jhpiego
At a maternal and child clinic at La Fossette, one of the largest in Cap-Haitian, patients arrive for regular check-ups as well as vaccinations. Four health workers work at the site, either vaccinating or weighing children. The clinic is held in a building in the process of being built.
Photo Credit: Karen Kasmauski/MCSP and Jhpiego
At a maternal and child clinic at La Fossette, one of the largest in Cap-Haitian, patients arrive for regular check-ups as well as vaccinations. Four health workers work at the site, either vaccinating or weighing children. The clinic is held in a building in the process of being built.
Photo Credit: Karen Kasmauski/MCSP and Jhpiego
At a maternal and child clinic at La Fossette, one of the largest in Cap-Haitian, patients arrive for regular check-ups as well as vaccinations. Four health workers work at the site, either vaccinating or weighing children. The clinic is held in a building in the process of being built.
Photo Credit: Karen Kasmauski/MCSP and Jhpiego
British Rotarians take immunize children in the streets of Lucknow during a round of the polio immunization campaign in Northern India. .Rotarians Bernice Yates, Pam Joyce and Jackie Berry work at a polio vaccination booths on the first day of the campaign..The drive is part of the campaign to eradicate polio in India and target the high-risk area of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. (photo Jean-Marc Giboux)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (July 22, 2021) - Getting ready to go back to school, a 13-year-old gets a COVID-19 vaccine at Naval Hospital Jacksonville’s Immunizations Clinic from Hospitalman Arlyn Brunet. The teen’s grandfather, a retired Aviation Machinist’s Mate 2nd Class, says, “In order to protect him and other children, we felt it important that he get the COVID vaccine.” (U.S. Navy photo by Deidre Smith, Naval Hospital Jacksonville/Released). #FacesofNHJax #SinkCOVID #COVID19Vaccine
Josiane Pierre, a health worker, on a walk visiting clients.
Photo Credit: Karen Kasmauski/MCSP and Jhpiego
Josiane Pierre, a health worker, helps Rosemeline with her newborn, along with her mother, husband and two other children.
Photo Credit: Karen Kasmauski/MCSP and Jhpiego
British Rotarians take immunize children in the streets of Lucknow during a round of the polio immunization campaign in Northern India. .Rotarians Bernice Yates, Pam Joyce and Jackie Berry work at a polio vaccination booths on the first day of the campaign..The drive is part of the campaign to eradicate polio in India and target the high-risk area of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. (photo Jean-Marc Giboux)
Premier John Horgan, Adrian Dix, Minister of Health, Dr. Bonnie Henry, Provincial Health Officer, and Dr. Penny Ballem, executive lead for B.C.’s immunization plan, announce that more than 400,000 people in British Columbia will be immunized from March to early April as the Province moves into Phase 2 of the largest immunization rollout in B.C.’s history.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2021PREM0015-000355
Alemnesh Gerefa (mother) with her one year old baby Kedir Mudi, at the Derer Ebija Health Post where they have come to get the newly introduced PCV vaccine.
©UNICEF Ethiopia/2011/Lemma
A little girl is being immunized against measles in the compound of the Bossangoa’s hospital, northwest CAR, 16 December 2008. "Children represent the great richness and future of our country and our children have a right to health”, said Faustin Ntelnoumbi, Minister of Health, Population and AIDS.
British Rotarians take immunize children in the streets of Lucknow during a round of the polio immunization campaign in Northern India. .Rotarians Bernice Yates, Pam Joyce and Jackie Berry work at a polio vaccination booths on the first day of the campaign..The drive is part of the campaign to eradicate polio in India and target the high-risk area of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. (photo Jean-Marc Giboux)
Mother breastfeeding while waiting her daughters turn to be vaccinated at the woreda 03 health center in Addis Ababaduring routine immunization on 21 May 2020.
The health workers are vaccinating children below 24
months to protect them from other serious diseases.
The parents and health workers are implementing measures to be safe by wearing face masks, limiting the
number of people in waiting area to keep social distancing. UNICEFEthiopia/2020/Tewodros Tadesse
Photo Credit: Allan Gichigi/MCSP
A child recieves oral vaccination in a health center in Igembe, Meru Kenya
USGS scientist Tonie Rocke is working to immunize populations of free-ranging prairie dogs against plague with an oral sylvatic plague vaccine (SPV). Here, she stands beside a prairie dog hole at the Pitchfork Ranch in Wyoming, holding a sample of the brightly colored, peanut butter flavored bait she developed.
If successful, the SPV could help protect endangered black-footed ferret populations in the western U.S. because the ferrets rely on prairie dogs for food.
The SPV project is a collaboration of more than 30 organizations and agencies.
Photo credit: Marisa Lubeck / USGS
Pilot in Mali for MenAfriVac immunization campaign.
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Rotary International advocacy visit to Ethiopia to support the polio eradication efforts and participate in the National Polio Immunization campaign. ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2015/Meklit Mersha
At a maternal and child clinic at La Fossette, one of the largest in Cap-Haitian, patients arrive for regular check-ups as well as vaccinations. Four health workers work at the site, either vaccinating or weighing children. The clinic is held in a building in the process of being built.
Photo Credit: Karen Kasmauski/MCSP and Jhpiego
British Rotarians take immunize children in the streets of Lucknow during a round of the polio immunization campaign in Northern India. .Rotarians Bernice Yates, Pam Joyce and Jackie Berry work at a polio vaccination booths on the first day of the campaign..The drive is part of the campaign to eradicate polio in India and target the high-risk area of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. (photo Jean-Marc Giboux)
Alemnesh Gerefa (mother) with her one year old baby Kedir Mudi, at the Derer Ebija Health Post where they have come to get the newly introduced PCV vaccine.
©UNICEF Ethiopia/2011/Lemma
Official Launch of the Polio Sub-NID, at the India Islamic Center in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, with Mullana Khalid Rasheed and District Magistrate A.K. Ghosh and visiting british rotarians , on November 8, 2009 . (photo Jean-Marc Giboux)
Village Ð Dolgobindpur, Block-Chandanpur CHS, Dist-Puri, Odisha, INDIA..Autorickshaw drivers prepare to carry cold chain boxes at Block Vaccine Store to deliver vaccine to Anganwadi centres. Every Wednesday, Purnachandra Saba, and other autorickshaw drivers delivers boxes of vaccines to anganwadi centres.Immunization is one of the most cost effective public health interventions, preventing around 2 million child deaths each year worldwide, and IndiaÕs Immunization Program is the largest in world with respect to the quantity of vaccines used and the number of beneficiaries. Here, Routine Immunization (RI) saves the lives of 400,000 children annually. In OdishaÕs 30 districts and 314 blocks, it is not easy for health workers to reach a population of 4.1 crore. With 30% of the areas difficult to reach, 22% tribal population, 48% people in the BPL category and 17% schedule cast population, Odisha has been one of the most challenges states for them in terms of geography and demography. Despite these odds, during 2013-14, the state provided immunization services at a cost of Rs 30 crore to 8,54,619 children between 0-1 years and 9,40,081 pregnant women to prevent seven diseases such as tuberculosis, diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, measles and Hepatitis B. In addition, vitamin A is also administered to children. The current level of full immunization coverage is 62.3% for children (AHS 2011-12), officials say. Since 2009, the program has manifested itself in the Teeka Express, where participation of civil society, NGOs, porters, rickshaw drivers and volunteers strengthen the vaccine delivery logistics. This system has been implemented in 280 out of the 314 blocks of the state, and has reduced vaccine shortage, improved vaccine quality, improved timeliness of reporting, ensured regularization of immunization in hard to reach areas and improved immunization waste management. .
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Photo Credit: Allan Gichigi/MCSP
A child recieves oral vaccination in a health center in Igembe, Meru Kenya
Beniam Fekadu, right and Mamush Bogale with their vaccination cards during the October 2010 measles and polio vaccination campaign, Moto Village, Dale District, SNNPR
©UNICEF Ethiopia/2010/Getachew
Rotary International advocacy visit to Ethiopia to support the polio eradication efforts and participate in the National Polio Immunization campaign in November 2014, where nationally, over 13 million children under the age of five will be vaccinated against polio. ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2014/Tsegaye
Village Bijulia, Samho Block, Dist. Begusarai, Bihar, INDIA. .Sanjay Kumar, Vaccine Courier, handsover vaccine carrier to Ritu Rani, Auxiliary Nurse Midwife (ANM), and Anita Kumar, ASHA worker at Anganwadi centre in Begusarai, Bihar. Social Mobilisation Network (SMNet), a UNICEF-supported initiative which mobilizes the community at every level village, block, district, region, state to get their children immunized from basic diseases as part of the governments routine immunization programmes. SMNet was started essentially in the 2000s as part of the government's anti-Polio campaigns. SMNet officers thus operate at every level, starting from the village level (where there's a Community Mobilisation Coordinator, typically belonging to the village), to the block, district, sub-region, and region, where there are corresponding mobilizing coordinators for every block, district, sub-region etc. SMNet is premised on the idea that people from within the community are the best ones to mobilize others in their people be it their village, their block or district. But this is where officers such as Bijay Ranjan prove that familiarity is merely an added advantage to the mobilizing process: the real trick lies in effective communication. It is this that made SMNet successful to the extent that SMNET Bihar officers have gone on mobilization drives to other states such as Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh etc. Although SMNet started as a tool to fight Polio campaign, over the years it has transcended its original definition, and become a pool of human resource that can be realigned to any other social/developmental goal. In fact, as of 2015, exactly a year after the WHO declared India as Polio Free, the SMNet is busy tackling diarrhea, malnutrition, hygiene and breast-feeding, all of which are critical to keeping Polio at bay. Immunization in India continues to be an ongoing challenge.
UNICEF India/2015/Dhiraj Singh.
Beginning this September, boys and young men up to age 26 who are at a higher risk of contracting human papillomavirus virus (HPV) can receive the HPV vaccine at no charge.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/stories/hpv-immunization-program-expanded-...
At a maternal and child clinic at La Fossette, one of the largest in Cap-Haitian, patients arrive for regular check-ups as well as vaccinations. Four health workers work at the site, either vaccinating or weighing children. The clinic is held in a building in the process of being built.
Photo Credit: Karen Kasmauski/MCSP and Jhpiego
Alemnesh Gerefa (mother) with her one year old baby Kedir Mudi, at the Derer Ebija Health Post where they have come to get the newly introduced PCV vaccine.
©UNICEF Ethiopia/2011/Lemma
Premier John Horgan and Dr. Penny Ballem, executive lead, B.C.’s immunization plan, announce that a new partnership will employ more than 1,400 tourism and hospitality workers in mass vaccination clinics — creating hundreds of jobs for B.C.’s hard-hit tourism, hospitality and sport sectors.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2021PREM0022-000539
Kari Bergstrom, Manager, Immunization, Business with Alberta Health provides logistical highlights of the Provincial Vaccine Depot to Minister of Health Tyler Shandro, Deputy Minister of Health Paul Wynnyk, and Dr. Deena Hinshaw on Monday, December 14, 2020.
Alberta will soon receive 25,350 doses of Pfizer vaccine and will start immunizing priority health-care workers provincewide.
During the week of Dec. 21, Alberta will receive shipments of vaccines from Pfizer at dedicated vaccine sites across the province.
Right now, the Pfizer vaccine must be administered at its delivery site, so these doses will be provided to respiratory therapists, intensive care unit physicians and staff, and eligible long-term care and designated supportive living workers across the province.
These are in addition to the 3,900 doses that are expected to arrive this week and will begin to be administered in Calgary and Edmonton within days of delivery. The ultra-cold freezers needed for the Pfizer vaccines are now installed at eight locations across Alberta and AHS staff are being trained to ensure quality and safety are maintained.
“This welcome news brings much-needed hope to Albertans, particularly health care workers, during this incredibly trying time in the pandemic. These staff are exhausted, and I hope seeing more vaccinations are on the way will show them there’s an end in sight. Albertans can be confident this vaccine is safe and will be administered quickly and efficiently.” said Minister Shandro.
“Alberta Health Services, Alberta Health and the COVID-19 task force have been hard at work preparing for the vaccine doses arriving this week and next. We have the plans in place to get the vaccines to where they need to go: into the arms of Albertans.” said Paul Wynnyk, chair, COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force.
“I am very pleased to hear that we will be able to immunize more of our front-line health-care workers and vulnerable Albertans before the end of the year. But this is not the end. We must continue to follow health measures to bend the curve, and until enough of us are immunized, we must continue to be each others’ vaccine.” said Dr. Deena Hinshaw, chief medical officer of health.
Pending final approval from Health Canada, the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is expected to arrive in Alberta later in December. The Moderna vaccines can be transported to other locations, so the initial shipment will be used to immunize residents at long-term care locations beginning with those at highest risk, including two First Nations seniors facilities.
As more shipments arrive in early January, immunization will focus on Phase 1 priority populations and will include residents of long-term care and designated supportive living facilities, followed by seniors aged 75 and over and First Nations on reserve, Inuit and on-settlement Metis individuals aged 65 and over.
Phase 2 is still expected to start by April 2021 and will be targeted to the next groups of prioritized populations. Final decisions regarding eligibility in Phase 2 have not yet been determined.
Phase 3 will involve rolling out vaccinations to the general Alberta population, and is anticipated to start later in 2021.
(photography by Chris Schwarz/Government of Alberta)
Ayalech Eshetu breastfeeding her child at Chalaba Silassie health post Bishoftu, Oromia Region Tuesday, 6 August 2019. ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2019/Mulugeta Ayene
This child wasnt easy. Took 3 adults and 6 hands to hold him down. Reminded me of one of those torture camps where they forced feed you insecticides or something.
Village Ð Dolgobindpur, Block-Chandanpur CHS, Dist-Puri, Odisha, INDIA..Autorickshaw drivers prepare to carry cold chain boxes at Block Vaccine Store to deliver vaccine to Anganwadi centres. Every Wednesday, Purnachandra Saba, and other autorickshaw drivers delivers boxes of vaccines to anganwadi centres.Immunization is one of the most cost effective public health interventions, preventing around 2 million child deaths each year worldwide, and IndiaÕs Immunization Program is the largest in world with respect to the quantity of vaccines used and the number of beneficiaries. Here, Routine Immunization (RI) saves the lives of 400,000 children annually. In OdishaÕs 30 districts and 314 blocks, it is not easy for health workers to reach a population of 4.1 crore. With 30% of the areas difficult to reach, 22% tribal population, 48% people in the BPL category and 17% schedule cast population, Odisha has been one of the most challenges states for them in terms of geography and demography. Despite these odds, during 2013-14, the state provided immunization services at a cost of Rs 30 crore to 8,54,619 children between 0-1 years and 9,40,081 pregnant women to prevent seven diseases such as tuberculosis, diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, measles and Hepatitis B. In addition, vitamin A is also administered to children. The current level of full immunization coverage is 62.3% for children (AHS 2011-12), officials say. Since 2009, the program has manifested itself in the Teeka Express, where participation of civil society, NGOs, porters, rickshaw drivers and volunteers strengthen the vaccine delivery logistics. This system has been implemented in 280 out of the 314 blocks of the state, and has reduced vaccine shortage, improved vaccine quality, improved timeliness of reporting, ensured regularization of immunization in hard to reach areas and improved immunization waste management..
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