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Indonesia: Seven-year-old Anindi gets caught up on her immunizations in a village health clinic outside of Tanjung Pinang, Riau Islands Province during National Childhood Immunization Month (BIAN).
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the significant decrease in the coverage of routine childhood immunizations due to restricted delivery of health services. The Ministry of Health (MOH) of Indonesia has estimated that as many as 1.7 million children did not receive complete basic immunizations during the pandemic. The declining coverage has resulted in the emergence of vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs) in several areas across Indonesia.
BIAN is expected to drive catch-up immunizations, complemented with measles-rubella vaccines, among children aged between 9 months to 15 years old to protect them against VPDs. Phase 1 of BIAN is held simultaneously from May to June in Sumatera, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Nusa Tenggara, Maluku and Papua, while phase 2 will take place starting August in Java and Bali.
UNICEF provides technical assistance to the Indonesian Ministry of Health, along with advocacy and training to local governments and health care workers, to carry out the months-long push to protect children through immunizations.
www.unicef.org/press-releases/WUENIC2022release
COVID-19 pandemic fuels largest continued backslide in vaccinations in three decades
Photo Credit: Allan Gichigi/MCSP
One of the people trained to fix broken down fridges for vaccines, Migori County, Kenya
British Columbians are a step closer to receiving their COVID-19 immunizations, with additional details and timelines released for the largest and most complex immunization plan to ever roll out in B.C.
Read more: news.gov.bc.ca/23637
Konnie Huq in Lucknow during the November Immunization days in Northern India..India has been engaged in a campaign to eradicate polio in India which target the high-risk area of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar with polio immunization drives every 2 months. (photo Jean-Marc Giboux)
This year, more than ever, Albertans should get immunized against influenza to protect their health and support the province’s fight against COVID-19.
Flu shots are now available free of charge at pharmacies and doctors’ offices across the province. Alberta Health Services (AHS) is also offering immunizations by appointment for those under five years old and those in their household.
This year’s flu season presents an additional challenge as Alberta responds to COVID-19. Immunization will help protect vulnerable Albertans, as well as decrease influenza-related tests, emergency room visits and hospitalizations during the pandemic.
The government has ordered a record 1.96 million doses of vaccine to help protect the health of Albertans.
“Getting immunized is more important now than ever before. It’s the best way to protect your health and the health of your friends and neighbours. It will also allow our health system to keep focusing on the fight against COVID-19 while we continue safely opening Alberta’s economy.”
Jason Kenney, Premier
“We’ve purchased a record amount of vaccine and made changes to ensure that getting your flu shot is as safe and easy as possible. By keeping cases of influenza low, we can make sure our health-care system can keep responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and all the other health-care needs that Albertans face every day.” said Tyler Shandro, Minister of Health.
“The flu shot won’t prevent COVID-19, but it will reduce your chances of getting sick with influenza and spreading it to others. While getting immunized helps, it’s also crucial to wash your hands often, cover coughs and sneezes and stay home when sick. If you have flu symptoms, book a test for COVID-19 as symptoms are similar. Let’s all do our part to keep one another safe.” said Dr. Deena Hinshaw, chief medical officer of health. (photography by Chris Schwarz/Government of Alberta)
Seven-year-old Reem, far right, and her siblings received all the required immunizations. "I feel I did my duty toward my children," says their mother. (c) UNICEF Yemen/2010/Rasha Al-Ardi
Asha Bilal, 32 gets her 2 years old daughter, Ayan Hamued vaccinated against Polio. ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2015/Meklit Mersha
Photo Credit: Allan Gichigi/MCSP
Mothers and their children being immunized in one of the outreach programs in East Pokot, Kenya
Marching Band, celebrating the launching of polio National Immunisation Day at Shinile. ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2015/Meklit Mersha
Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP) Immunization Clinic personnel administered a COVID-19 vaccination to the first East Coast waterfront Sailor, Master Chief Hospital Corpsman Blair Taylor, Dec. 21. Taylor is assigned to USS San Antonio (LPD 17) as the ship’s Health Services Department leading chief petty officer and Surface Fleet Independent Duty Corpsman (SFIDC). The voluntary vaccination falls within the DoD phased approach to prioritize mission-essential healthcare personnel in receiving the vaccine. NMCP was one of the first Military Treatment Facilities (MTFs) to receive a shipment of the COVID-19 vaccine Dec. 15, and they have been providing vaccinations to healthcare workers assigned to the medical center. As the U.S. Navy's oldest, continuously-operating military hospital since 1830, Naval Medical Center Portsmouth proudly serves past and present military members and their families. The nationally-acclaimed, state-of-the-art medical center, along with the area's 10 branch health and TRICARE Prime Clinics, provide care for the Hampton Roads area
Rotary International advocates, UNICEF advocates and Rotaracts gathered to participate in the National Polio Immunization campaign at Shinile and Dire Dawa. ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2015/Mersha
A girl is vaccinated against measles, in Barangay 91, Tacloban, Leyte. The Philippine Government, with support from UNICEF and the World Health Organization, has started a mass vaccination campaign in the typhoon-affected areas.
©UNICEF Philippines/2013/Heather Papowitz
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)
Photo Credit: Allan Gichigi/MCSP
A young mother has her daughter immunized during an outreach in East Pokot, Kenya 2016
Tech. Sgt. Suzanne Nelson, 355th Healthcare Operations Squadron, immunizations non-commisioned officer in charge, fills a syringe with the COVID-19 vaccination to be administered by members of the Arizona National Guard to service members and their dependents at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Ariz. May 6, 2021. The Arizona National Guard is partnering with active duty components to surge capacity and capability in providing vaccinations to service members and their dependents. (U.S. Air National Guard video by Tech. Sgt. Michael Matkin)
Elizabeth Peacock and Deb Semmler travel to the Gaston County Health Department to receive yellow fever (and other) vaccinations for their travel to Rwanda in June 2015. Preparations for the trip, including development of lesson plans and professional development for teachers at IWE and Byimana, are underway and will continue throughout the month of May 2015.
Village Ð Alikia, Block-Chandanpur CHS, Dist-Puri, Odisha, INDIA..A wmoan being immunized after Purnachandra Sabata, 44, an autorickshaw driver, delivered cold chain boxes of vaccines to Anganwadi centre. Every Wednesday, Purnachandra Saba, 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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... I'm not kidding, this ain't no color correction. She's actually turning pale during her second shot.
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A young boy receiving immunization vaccines /
Un jeune garçon recevant des vaccins
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This week, the Pipeline Community Health Center in Monrovia, Liberia, is working to resume routine immunizations that have been put on hold due to the Ebola epidemic. The effort is part of a nationwide campaign led by Liberia's Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW), and supported by UNICEF, known as the periodic intensification of routine immunization, or PIRI, which aims to rapidly reduce the number of children not immunized against measles. In Liberia, government data shows that monthly measles immunization coverage against target dropped from 71% in May 2014 to 55% in October 2014.
As cases of Ebola are falling in Liberia, health workers are encouraging parents to bring in their children in order to catch up on the mixed vaccinations. Dr. Rebecca Varney, the officer in charge of the Pipeline Community Health Center, said that some children coming in are 22 months old but have not completed their vaccinations.
Varney also noted the risk of unimmunized children spreading measles to other children in school, as well as the importance of vaccinations as schools prepare to reopen. "Children would come down with measles and the parents would not notice, and would send them to school…and it would pass on to other children." At this time if we can vaccinate the children to prevent them from getting measles, it will be so much better for our school system and other children will not get infected.
Monrovia, Liberia, on 2 February 2015
Photo: UNMEER/Aalok Kanani
Since 1987, the Extended Program on Immunization in Bangladesh has saved the lives of more than 3.5 million children . It has led to the eradication of poliomyelitis and the elimination of neonatal tetanus, and has possibly made the biggest contribution towards Bangladesh's achievement of Millennium Development Goal 4 well ahead of schedule. At least 95% of the 157 million people living in this country have access to vaccines - this in a country where only around 60% of the population has access to the power grid, that sees annual floods, and that has a challenging road transport system and high levels of corruption. This has made Bangladesh's vaccine delivery system a role model for delivering effective interventions in resource-poor settings. This successful story cannot be pinned down on any one crucial factor, but it is rather a result of the development of an effective system involving collaboration between multiple dedicated blocks of society – from front line workers to politicians to journalists.
Photo Credit: Allan Gichigi/MCSP
Mothers and their children being immunized in one of the outreach programs in East Pokot, Kenya
Public-health officials encourage all British Columbians six months and older to get an influenza vaccine to best protect themselves, their loved ones, their communities and the health-care system this fall and winter.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/27599
Today marks the first day of British Columbia’s provincewide COVID-19 immunizations, the most comprehensive vaccine program to ever be delivered in B.C.
Over the coming days, approximately 4,000 health-care workers in British Columbia will be rolling up their sleeves to receive the first approved COVID-19 vaccine.
Pictured is Nisha Yunus, a 64-year old residential care aide in the Vancouver Coastal Health region, receiving her immunization.
In addition to management activities, ECHO-DFID funding is also geared towards immunizing children against diseases such as measles, polio, yellow fever and tetanus.
Photograph © Sylvain Cherkaoui/DFID/ECHO/ACF
In Marabo clinic village health workers were vaccinating and distributing vitamin A. UNICEF provides about 80% of the funding of the governments Expanded Programme of Immunization. UNICEF provides the vaccines, needles, syringes, cold chain materials and sharps boxes.
The Marabo clinic covers about 12,000 people. Most of the inhabitants are returnees. The clinic has 4 nurses and a further are being trained from the relais communautaires(I am not sure I heard this correctly as I am told this is not standard practice).
The clinic is supported by 25 relais communautaires voluntary workers. They register the mothers and children for the immunization and during the week spread health and sanitation messages. Three volunteers can be seen working on the campaign; one to register the children, one in charge of the vitamin A and one with iron tablets.
The volunteer who explained this to me (woman with black turban sitting at the table) had been a volunteer for 3 years, she had been asked to become one by her neighbours, she said she did the work as she wanted to develop her community. She spread messages about sanitation mainly at the end of prayer meetings but also from door to door. In her neigbourhood 30 out of 100 houses had latrines.
Solidarites has just started a programme to provide tools for families so that they can build latrines.
Quezon City, Philippines May 17, 2011. A Filipino boy Gabriel age 7 of Barangay San Antonio in Quezon City Philippines receives a free vaccine shot for measles launched nationwide by the Department of Health dubbed as "Iligtas sa Tigdas ang Pinas" or Saved Philippines from Measles, a door-to-door Measles Rubella (MR) Immunization Campaign targeting 1.5 million Filipino children ages between 9 months and below 8 years old to eradicate measles such as Rubella Measles or German Measles. The campaign started April 4, 2011.
Dr. Bonnie Henry welcomed kids and their parents to some of the first pediatric COVID-19 vaccine appointments, November 29, 2021.
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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 BC’s history.
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Today marks the first day of British Columbia’s provincewide COVID-19 immunizations, the most comprehensive vaccine program to ever be delivered in B.C.
Over the coming days, approximately 4,000 health-care workers in British Columbia will be rolling up their sleeves to receive the first approved COVID-19 vaccine.
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
met this guy who saved this stray kitten from the street. with manila traffic this stray kitten would be lucky to survive a month. the kitten is now properly immunized and sheltered!
Photo Credit: Allan Gichigi/MCSP
Cornelius Kondo (spectacles), USAID/MCSP County manager, Migori together with the health officer of the facility looks at some of the vaccines in the fridge, Migory County, Kenya.
Mozambique, 2019 – A child has her finger marked to indicate she has received the polio vaccination. In October 2018, doctors detected and confirmed a case of polio in Zambezia Province. To prevent its spread, the Ministry of Health held three rounds of the polio vaccination campaign, supported by UNICEF. UNICEF manages the procurement and distribution of over 1 billion doses of polio vaccines annually, accounting for more than 50 per cent of global oral polio vaccines (OPV).
©UNICEF/UNI206066/Fauvrelle
To learn more: www.unicef.org
Women are immunized against cervical cancer and pap smears are conducted in the HPV Immunisation room. Bogota, Colombia. Instituto Nacional de Cancerología
Today marks the first day of British Columbia’s provincewide COVID-19 immunizations, the most comprehensive vaccine program to ever be delivered in B.C.
Over the coming days, approximately 4,000 health-care workers in British Columbia will be rolling up their sleeves to receive the first approved COVID-19 vaccine.
Pictured is Nisha Yunus, a 64-year old residential care aide in the Vancouver Coastal Health region, receiving her immunization.