Health workers also targeted the 24 per cent of the country’s children in nomadic herder families. Vaccinator P. Oyunchimeg carries vaccines in Khövsgöl’s remote distric of Tsagaannur. © UNICEF/NYHQ2012-1732/BRIAN SOKOL

On 20 February, a child receives an oral polio vaccine during a routine immunization session at the health centre in the town of Nyunzu in Katanga Province. Two drops of the vaccine are needed per child in each of several vaccination rounds to ensure complete immunity against the disease.

From 12 to 22 February 2012, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow travelled to Chad and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to promote expanded polio eradication efforts and to review other UNICEF-supported programmes. Ms. Farrow met with children affected by polio; with religious leaders to help raise critical support for increased immunization coverage; and with partner representatives from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative a public-private partnership led by governments and spearheaded by the World Health Organization (WHO), Rotary International, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and UNICEF. Her visits follow an important milestone towards eradicating the highly infectious disease: In January, India one of just four polio-endemic countries remaining in the world for the first time reported a full year with no new polio cases. (Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan are the other three endemic countries.) In the Democratic Republic of the Congo where more than 5.4 million people have died from years of conflict, disease and malnutrition circulation of an imported wild poliovirus has persisted for over a year. Ms. Farrow visited eastern parts of the country, meeting with polio survivors in Katanga Province where a polio outbreak persists and visiting health centres and a settlement for children and families displaced by conflict. In South Kivu Province, Ms. Farrow met with child labourers, survivors of sexual violence and with children demobilized from armed groups, in addition to visiting various health sites.

Nurse Lohondje Shanga (left) administers an immunization during a maternal clinic at the United Methodist Mangobo Health Center in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo. The center was revitalized using funds from the denomination's Imagine No Malaria campaign. Photo by Mike DuBose, UMNS

A truck which transports SDD refrigerators to Health Posts. ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2018/Mulugeta Ayene

Area: Chandnmari Juggi, Vijaynagar District: Ghaziabad, State: Uttar Pradesh Country: India, 22nd March 2017 .

Naazma Begum mobilizes mothers and children from their homes to attend a routine immunization session at the local anganwadi in the Chandnmari Juggi. 27-year-old Naazma Begum along with her husband Mohhammed Avrakh reside in a 100 sq.feet plot of land covered by blue and yellow plastic supported by bamboo sticks. In order to survive Naazma picks rags from garbage dumps and construction sites, sometimes travelling around 8 to 10 kilometers a day. Typically her day starts at 4:00 am, and sometimes can extend till late evenings. After picking useful items out of garbage she comes back to her slum colony and sorts out the various pieces of junk collected. Plastic, metals, glass and other items are separated and sold. Children, young and old participate in this activity. The sorted items would then be sold to a “Kabadi Wala” ( Wholesale Junk Shop).

On certain days Naazma does not go for her morning rounds of rag picking. This does affects her household economically. Her husband a magician doing shows for a living does not have a steady stream of income. In spite of the circumstances Naazma on these mornings goes house to house motivating young mothers from her community to take their children for routine immunization sessions organized in her locality by the National Health Mission.

An inspiration to many, Naazma sometimes has tough time convincing her friends to take their children. Excuses ranging from, “We don’t have time’, “the child will get fever “ are common in her community. Naazma patiently explains the dangers caused due to lack of vaccination and its necessity in today’s life to every household. Her effort along with the support of Community Mobilization Coordinator and Block Mobilization Coordinator has led to a massive increase in the children immunized in Vijaynagar Ghaziabad.

Volunteer Ron Saikowski, of Conroe, visits with a youngster before she receives her immunizations during the Shots Across Texas 2010 at Conroe High School. Children were able to receive the immunizations they need to begin the school year. photo by David Hopper

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Fish in an aquarium at the doctor's office. We were there for our son's pre-college physical and immunizations. A little boy there for his own pre-kindergarten immunizations kept talking about how scary these fish were.

Immunization not only protects children from vaccine-preventable diseases, it also gives us a chance to deliver other life-saving measures, such as vitamin A supplements and checking for signs of malnutrition screenings and other diseases.

Area: Chandnmari Juggi, Vijaynagar District: Ghaziabad, State: Uttar Pradesh Country: India, 22nd March 2017 .

Naazma Begum mobilizes mothers and children from their homes to attend a routine immunization session at the local anganwadi in the Chandnmari Juggi. 27-year-old Naazma Begum along with her husband Mohhammed Avrakh reside in a 100 sq.feet plot of land covered by blue and yellow plastic supported by bamboo sticks. In order to survive Naazma picks rags from garbage dumps and construction sites, sometimes travelling around 8 to 10 kilometers a day. Typically her day starts at 4:00 am, and sometimes can extend till late evenings. After picking useful items out of garbage she comes back to her slum colony and sorts out the various pieces of junk collected. Plastic, metals, glass and other items are separated and sold. Children, young and old participate in this activity. The sorted items would then be sold to a “Kabadi Wala” ( Wholesale Junk Shop).

On certain days Naazma does not go for her morning rounds of rag picking. This does affects her household economically. Her husband a magician doing shows for a living does not have a steady stream of income. In spite of the circumstances Naazma on these mornings goes house to house motivating young mothers from her community to take their children for routine immunization sessions organized in her locality by the National Health Mission.

An inspiration to many, Naazma sometimes has tough time convincing her friends to take their children. Excuses ranging from, “We don’t have time’, “the child will get fever “ are common in her community. Naazma patiently explains the dangers caused due to lack of vaccination and its necessity in today’s life to every household. Her effort along with the support of Community Mobilization Coordinator and Block Mobilization Coordinator has led to a massive increase in the children immunized in Vijaynagar Ghaziabad.

Halima Abdi (blue/purple scarf) brought in her baby, Munira Mohamed (7 months old, she is holding her) for a measles vaccine. Also with her is her 1-year-old girl (wearing brown printed dress) who is already up to date on vaccines. She heard about the event through the outreach health workers mobilizers. She has 4 children and cares for them mostly alone while her husband moves around the town selling clothes to support the family. Halima used to clean homes in town for an income, but since the drought many people have stopped having a cleaner come as they are also suffering with less income. They lived in Baidoa but once the drought increased, they moved to Garowe where there are less people.

Nurses are working at the Jawle Health Center mobile vaccine clinic in Garowe, is set up in the Jawle IDP camp Mother and Baby center. The clinic moves to different places around the IDP camps 3 days a week so that they can reach many people. UNICEF works through EPI donors like GAVI to supports partner organizations like World Vision, Save the Children, CRC and the Puntland Ministry of Health. Many pastoralists are coming to the IDP camp here because the drought is killing off their livestock. There has been outbreaks of diseases and so this year there will be 2 rounds of an integrated vaccination campaigns (one was in March the next is in November) to immunize for measles and polio along with vitamin A supplementation and deworming.

In July there was a measles outbreak and more children for suffering but there was an outreach campaign in response to the outbreak and the situation soon stabilized. After the outreach about immunization around 530 children under 5 years old were brought into the clinic for their dose.

The Jawle Health Center in Garowe are seeing an increase in the number of malnourished children as the drought continues. In July there was a measles outbreak and more children for suffering but there was an outreach campaign in response to the outbreak and the situation soon stabilized. After the outreach about immunization around 530 children under 5 years old were brought into the clinic for their dose. ©UNICEF Somalia/2022/Lisa Hill

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

Masha-Allah through joint efforts Seeds of Leadership, Khayr Project, Mishka Social Services, MAH and Hamilton Downtown Mosque with Hamilton Public Health over 900 people from our community immunized. This week we are at Hamilton Downtown Mosque. [To register please email vaccines@seedsofleadership.ca

We are administering the *Moderna* vaccine.

Childhood Immunizations are being given for the next three weeks at the Breath of Life Children's Clinic at 21715 Kingsland Boulevard. Houston Baptist University student, Kristyn Joyce, 18, of Katy receives an immunization from Dawn Fanguy, LVN, on the left, and support from Todd Poole, LVN, on the right. Suzanne Rehak/For the Chronicle

Adigudon Clinic-Ethiopia. ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2010/Tuschman

UNICEF Staff supporting Rotary International Advocacy Group Visit to office

Area: Chandmari Juggi, Vijaynagar District: Ghaziabad, State: Uttar Pradesh Country: India, 21ST March 2017 .

Naazma Begum goes door to door visiting young mothers from the Dholka (drums) community and persuades them to attend an routine immunization session scheduled the next day. 27-year-old Naazma Begum along with her husband Mohhammed Avrakh reside in a 100 sq.feet plot of land covered by blue and yellow plastic supported by bamboo sticks. In order to survive Naazma picks rags from garbage dumps and construction sites, sometimes travelling around 8 to 10 kilometers a day. Typically her day starts at 4:00 am, and sometimes can extend till late evenings. After picking useful items out of garbage she comes back to her slum colony and sorts out the various pieces of junk collected. Plastic, metals, glass and other items are separated and sold. Children, young and old participate in this activity. The sorted items would then be sold to a “Kabadi Wala” ( Wholesale Junk Shop).

On certain days Naazma does not go for her morning rounds of rag picking. This does affects her household economically. Her husband a magician doing shows for a living does not have a steady stream of income. In spite of the circumstances Naazma on these mornings goes house to house motivating young mothers from her community to take their children for routine immunization sessions organized in her locality by the National Health Mission.

An inspiration to many, Naazma sometimes has tough time convincing her friends to take their children. Excuses ranging from, “We don’t have time’, “ the child will get fever “ are common in her community. Naazma patiently explains the dangers caused due to lack of vaccination and its necessity in today’s life to every household. Her effort along with the support of Community Mobilization Coordinator and Block Mobilization Coordinator has led to a massive increase in the children immunized in Vijaynagar Ghaziabad.

Picture taken in rural Assam after the child came with his mother to a health camp for immunizations. The card that tracks the shots and series given rested in her hand, while her child slept undaunted by the cries and shrieks of other child receiving shots nearby. The program that a local NGO (C-NES), UNICEF and India's NRHM started in 2006, has been a huge success, now reaching over 20,000 river-island villagers in the Brahmaputra River.

The 13th Vaccination Week in the Americas (VWA) will be celebrated from April 25th to May 2nd, 2015. The regional slogan for VWA 2015 is “Boost your power! Get vaccinated!” Vaccines are weakened or killed pathogens that help your immune system fight diseases. Vaccines do not make you sick, but prepare your body to fight off disease when exposed to full strength pathogens in the future. Vaccines boost the power of your immune system and fight off more than 20 different vaccine-preventable diseases. To read more on how vaccines boost your power, check out: www.paho.org/vwa/

Area: Chandmari Juggi, Vijaynagar District: Ghaziabad, State: Uttar Pradesh Country: India, 22nd March 2017 .

Naazma Begum mobilizes mothers and children from their homes to attend a routine immunization session at the local anganwadi in the Chandmari Juggi. 27-year-old Naazma Begum along with her husband Mohhammed Avrakh reside in a 100 sq.feet plot of land covered by blue and yellow plastic supported by bamboo sticks. In order to survive Naazma picks rags from garbage dumps and construction sites, sometimes travelling around 8 to 10 kilometers a day. Typically her day starts at 4:00 am, and sometimes can extend till late evenings. After picking useful items out of garbage she comes back to her slum colony and sorts out the various pieces of junk collected. Plastic, metals, glass and other items are separated and sold. Children, young and old participate in this activity. The sorted items would then be sold to a “Kabadi Wala” ( Wholesale Junk Shop).

On certain days Naazma does not go for her morning rounds of rag picking. This does affects her household economically. Her husband a magician doing shows for a living does not have a steady stream of income. In spite of the circumstances Naazma on these mornings goes house to house motivating young mothers from her community to take their children for routine immunization sessions organized in her locality by the National Health Mission.

An inspiration to many, Naazma sometimes has tough time convincing her friends to take their children. Excuses ranging from, “We don’t have time’, “the child will get fever “ are common in her community. Naazma patiently explains the dangers caused due to lack of vaccination and its necessity in today’s life to every household. Her effort along with the support of Community Mobilization Coordinator and Block Mobilization Coordinator has led to a massive increase in the children immunized in Vijaynagar Ghaziabad.

In Jan 2010 the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations (GAVI) and its partners are rolling out a new vaccine to prevent pneumonia in Kenya. In the developing world, pneumonia kills in the neighborhood of 1.4 million kids every year. Pneumococcal, the deadliest strain of that illness (and a major cause of what we might call "regular" pneumonia), kills 800,000.

Kenya's pneumococcal vaccine's official launch date is Feb 14, but we were able to photograph a clinic near the Kibera slum in Nairobi that already started providing the vaccine this week.

This health center is the Langata (sometimes called Kibera) District's regional distribution center for the 36 clinics within the district. They collect all of the vaccines from the Regional Disbursement Center and, since they must maintain the cold chain to ensure the efficacy and safety of the vaccine, haul them back to Langata in well-used, white Styrofoam coolers. There, they are stored in an upright, avocado green refrigerator. But, it works and that's what counts. They are then divided up and dispersed to the 27 clinics in the District that have trained personnel to give the vaccines.

A child receives a dose of oral polio vaccine, in the San Jose evacuation centre in Tacloban City, Leyte. Children are also receiving vitamin A supplements to help boost their immunity. ©UNICEF Philippines/2013/Heather Papowitz

Another flu immunization hits the target in preparation for peak flu season (December through March).

Photo by Bill Bengtson/Fort Gordon Public Affairs Office

Adigudon Clinic-Ethiopia. ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2010/Tuschman

2009 Immunization Clinic at Ohio Northern University in partnership with Kroger's

H.E Dr Kebede Worku, State Minister of Health and Ms Gillian Mellsop, UNICEF representative to Ethiopia flags off a truck which transports SDD refrigerators to Health Posts. ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2018/Mulugeta Ayene

Vacunación contra COVID-19 en población ribereña en el norte de Brasil.

Foto: Karina Zambrana - OPAS/OMS

In early May, UNICEF supported a vaccination campaign in IDP sites and villages affected by conflict in the Waghimra zone of the Amhara region. Along with the campaign, children and pregnant women were also screened for their nutrition status. ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2022/Mulugeta Ayene

Adigudon Clinic-Ethiopia. ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2010/Tuschman

The GME studies show, the Vaccine Market is expected to grow at a higher CGAR percentage of 8.5 between 2020-2026 duration. The high prevalence of infectious disease and the growing focus on immunization is creating the demand for the product. Government investment to bring immunization to a every stratum of the society is building opportunities for the growth of the product. A global pandemic has affected more than 200 million of the global population. This created pressure on the manufacturing companies to increase the production rate and escalate the supply chain of the product. The expansion of manufacturing commodities facilitates catering to the demand will further strengthen the core potential of many industries.

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By Technology (Live Attenuated Vaccines, Toxoid Vaccines, Recombinant Vaccines, Inactivated Vaccines, and Other Vaccines); By Disease (Pneumococcal, Influenza, DTP, Rotavirus, TT, Polio, MMR, Varicella, Dengue and TB); By Route(IM, SC, ID, and Oral); By Patient (Pediatric, and Adult); By Region (North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, MEA, and CSA); By Region (North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, MEA, and CSA), Company Market Share & Competitor Analysis

Key Market Insights:

•The Global Vaccine market is expected grow with a CAGR value of 8.5% during 2020-2026

•The inactivated vaccines have shown the highest market since past recent times.

•Diseases such as pneumococcal, DTP, and others come under bacterial diseases which holds the largest market share of the vaccines

•The intramuscular and intra-cutaneous administration accounts for the largest vaccine market share of 2019 and is estimated to witness the same growth in the aforementioned timeline owing to the increased prevalence of bacterial and viral diseases.

•Pediatric holds the largest market of the vaccine in terms of value. The two prime reasons behind the significant growth are increasing pediatric vaccination dosage and increasing statistics of birth.

•North America showed the highest market share of vaccines in the year 2019 and expected to maintain dominance in the coming years also.

Key global players in the Global Vaccine market include: GlaxoSmithKline plc. (UK), Pfizer, Inc. (US), Merck & Co., Inc. (US), Sanofi Pasteur SA (France), CSL Limited (Australia), Emergent BioSolutions, Inc. (US), Johnson & Johnson (US), Serum Institute of India (India), AstraZeneca (UK), Bavarian Nordic (Denmark), Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation (Japan), and Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited (Japan) among others.

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Village Narayanpur, Samho Block, Dist. Begusarai, Bihar, INDIA. Vijay Ranjan, block mobilisation coordinater, explains Diarrhea prevention to a woman in Anganwadi centre at Narayanpur village 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.

UNICEF supports a nationwide measles vaccination campaign to protect 15.5 million children from life-threatening diseases. The launch of regional vaccination campaign in Haik town, Amhara region, Ethiopia 27 December 2022. In addition, integrating in the campaign, a range of other lifesaving services. These include COVID-19 jabs and catch-up immunizations for under-vaccinated children, screening for acute malnutrition, vitamin A drops and deworming against intestinal parasites. ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2022/Mulugeta Ayene

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SAN DIEGO (July 23, 2020) Hospitalman Garrett Cormier, a Sailor assigned to Naval Medical Center San Diego's (NMCSD) Immunization Clinic, prepares a vaccine July 23. NMCSD’s mission is to prepare service members to deploy in support of operational forces, deliver high quality healthcare services, and shape the future of military medicine through education, training, and research. NMCSD employs more than 6,000 active duty military personnel, civilians, and contractors in Southern California to provide patients with world-class care anytime, anywhere. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Luke Cunningham)

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UNICEF supports a nationwide measles vaccination campaign to protect 15.5 million children from life-threatening diseases. The launch of regional vaccination campaign in Haik town, Amhara region, Ethiopia 27 December 2022. In addition, integrating in the campaign, a range of other lifesaving services. These include COVID-19 jabs and catch-up immunizations for under-vaccinated children, screening for acute malnutrition, vitamin A drops and deworming against intestinal parasites. ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2022/Mulugeta Ayene

Rena Devi belongs from a backward cast in India. They are regarded as Dalits. She has been active with her infant's immunization which has been organized under the mission Indradhanush. Her son is 18 months of age. She belongs from Gaya in Bihar. Mission Indradhanush was launched by Union Health Minister J.P Nadda on December 25, 2014. It aims to immunize all children against seven vaccine preventable diseases namely diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, tuberculosis, measles and hepatitis B by 2020. The Ministry will be technically supported by WHO, UNICEF, Rotary International and other donor partners. Mass media, interpersonal communication, and sturdy mechanisms of monitoring and evaluating the scheme are crucial components of Mission Indradhanush. UNICEF has taken the initiatives to take on the campaign and make sure to immunize every child who had been left out earlier. The mission foresee to immunize children from 65% to 90% under this mission.

Photo: UNICEF/India/Shome Basu.

The woreda 03 health center in Addis Ababa

conducting routine

immunization for measles and polio on 21 May 2020.

The health workers are

vaccinating children below 24

months to protect them from

preventable 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

Mariam Yusuph holds her one-day old child while the oral polio vaccine is being administered at Mtibwa health facility in Morogoro region, Tanzania.

Morogoro Region in Tanzania has improved its routine immunization performance following a number of initiatives undertaken by regional authorities and development partners, including USAID’s MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership. MOMENTUM supported the region to use an approach called ‘Periodic Intensification of Routine Immunization’ — which uses time-limited and intermittent vaccine campaigns to administer routine vaccinations to under-vaccinated populations – to identify children who missed routine vaccines and those who didn't complete the full vaccine schedule.

Photo credit: Frank Kimaro/Jhpiego

2009 Immunization Clinic at Ohio Northern University in partnership with Kroger's

2009 Immunization Clinic at Ohio Northern University in partnership with Kroger's

Area: Chandmari Juggi, Vijaynagar District: Ghaziabad, State: Uttar Pradesh Country: India, 22nd March 2017 .

Naazma Begum mobilizes mothers and children from their homes to attend a routine immunization session at the local anganwadi in the Chandmari Juggi. 27-year-old Naazma Begum along with her husband Mohhammed Avrakh reside in a 100 sq.feet plot of land covered by blue and yellow plastic supported by bamboo sticks. In order to survive Naazma picks rags from garbage dumps and construction sites, sometimes travelling around 8 to 10 kilometers a day. Typically her day starts at 4:00 am, and sometimes can extend till late evenings. After picking useful items out of garbage she comes back to her slum colony and sorts out the various pieces of junk collected. Plastic, metals, glass and other items are separated and sold. Children, young and old participate in this activity. The sorted items would then be sold to a “Kabadi Wala” ( Wholesale Junk Shop).

On certain days Naazma does not go for her morning rounds of rag picking. This does affects her household economically. Her husband a magician doing shows for a living does not have a steady stream of income. In spite of the circumstances Naazma on these mornings goes house to house motivating young mothers from her community to take their children for routine immunization sessions organized in her locality by the National Health Mission.

An inspiration to many, Naazma sometimes has tough time convincing her friends to take their children. Excuses ranging from, “We don’t have time’, “the child will get fever “ are common in her community. Naazma patiently explains the dangers caused due to lack of vaccination and its necessity in today’s life to every household. Her effort along with the support of Community Mobilization Coordinator and Block Mobilization Coordinator has led to a massive increase in the children immunized in Vijaynagar Ghaziabad.

USC Student Health held its first two-week long immunization fair for new international students.

A clinic in Marmalade, Haiti has adopted the Clean Care standards. They have a team of people who take shifts cleaning the clinic.

Photo Credit: Karen Kasmauski/MCSP and Jhpiego

A baby being immunized by injection at the Asata Health Centre.

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Halima takes her baby back home after the measles vaccine. Halima Abdi (blue/purple scarf) brought in her baby, Munira Mohamed (7 months old, she is holding her) for a measles vaccine. Also with her is her 1-year-old girl (wearing brown printed dress) who is already up to date on vaccines. She heard about the event through the outreach health workers mobilizers. She has 4 children and cares for them mostly alone while her husband moves around the town selling clothes to support the family. Halima used to clean homes in town for an income, but since the drought many people have stopped having a cleaner come as they are also suffering with less income. They lived in Baidoa but once the drought increased, they moved to Garowe where there are less people.

Nurses are working at the Jawle Health Center mobile vaccine clinic in Garowe, is set up in the Jawle IDP camp Mother and Baby center. The clinic moves to different places around the IDP camps 3 days a week so that they can reach many people. UNICEF works through EPI donors like GAVI to supports partner organizations like World Vision, Save the Children, CRC and the Puntland Ministry of Health. Many pastoralists are coming to the IDP camp here because the drought is killing off their livestock. There has been outbreaks of diseases and so this year there will be 2 rounds of an integrated vaccination campaigns (one was in March the next is in November) to immunize for measles and polio along with vitamin A supplementation and deworming.

In July there was a measles outbreak and more children for suffering but there was an outreach campaign in response to the outbreak and the situation soon stabilized. After the outreach about immunization around 530 children under 5 years old were brought into the clinic for their dose.

The Jawle Health Center in Garowe are seeing an increase in the number of malnourished children as the drought continues. In July there was a measles outbreak and more children for suffering but there was an outreach campaign in response to the outbreak and the situation soon stabilized. After the outreach about immunization around 530 children under 5 years old were brought into the clinic for their dose. ©UNICEF Somalia/2022/Lisa Hill

Village Samho, Samho Block, Dist. Begusarai, Bihar, INDIA. Ritu Rani, Auxiliary Nurse Midwife (ANM), immunize a child inside 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.

Representatives, Robin Mowson and Tori Decca, senior program analysts, on the Immunization Team, at the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), travel to Monongalia County Health Department, in Morgantown, West Virginia, to conduct a field visit on March 15, 2023. The pair visited the local health department as part of NACCHO’s effort to maintain and promo positive organizational partnerships. In conducting these field visits, NACCHO seeks to understand how local health departments have increased the community’s confidence of the LHD; leveraged partnerships and coalition-building skills; and approaches to effect change in communities. (Photos by Robin Mowson, Tori Decca, and MaryWade Burnside)