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Dr. Paul Odila immunizing a baby at an outreach in East Pokot, Kenya
Women are immunized against cervical cancer and pap smears are conducted in the HPV Immunisation room. Bogota, Colombia. Instituto Nacional de Cancerología
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
"The First Book of Microbes" by Lucia Z. Lewis. University of Chicago Press of Chicago. Copyright 1938 and 1948 by the University.
180418-N-KT595-012 Busan, Republic of Korea (April 19, 2018) Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class James Wall, assigned to Branch Health Clinic Chinhae, gives Information Systems Technician 1st class William Bond, assigned to Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Korea (CNFK), a routine vaccination during an immunization clinic held at CNFK headquarters. CNFK is the U.S. Navy’s representative in the Republic of Korea, providing leadership and expertise in naval matters to improve institutional and operational effectiveness between the two navies and to strengthen collective security efforts in Korea and the region. (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Chad M. Butler)
Polio vaccination, a response of a recent polio outbreak in the Horn of Africa. ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2015/Mersha
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)
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)
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.
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One of the people trained to fix broken down fridges for vaccines, Migori County, Kenya
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)
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
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A young mother has her daughter immunized during an outreach in East Pokot, Kenya 2016
Asha Bilal, 32 gets her 2 years old daughter, Ayan Hamued vaccinated against Polio. ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2015/Meklit 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
To see something and then ignore it or to see something wrong and not speak out... is just gross.
Here are some stats....
-More than 30 million children in the world are not immunized against treatable or preventable diseases
-Six million children under five die every year as a result of hunger
-134 million children between the ages of 7 to 18 have never been to school.
-In the last decade, more than 2 million children have died as a direct result of armed conflict
-More than 300,000 child soldiers are exploited in armed conflicts in over 30 countries around the world
-171 million children work in hazardous conditions
-2 million children are believed to be exploited through the commercial sex trade
-An estimated 2.4 million people are currently in forced labour – including sexual exploitation as a result of trafficking. This is around a fifth of the total number of people in forced labour worldwide.
-Half the world, nearly three billion people, live on less than two dollars a day.
-1 billion children live in poverty (1 in 2 children in the world). 640 million live without adequate shelter, 400 million have no access to safe water, 270 million have no access to health services. 10.6 million died in 2003 before they reached the age of 5 (or roughly 29,000 children per day).
-Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names.
-Approx. 3,700 abortions are performed a day in the United States alone
-Apporx. 1.37 Million abortions are performed a day in the United States alone
"When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out. "
-Martin Niemöller
Secret #9.
I used to stay quiet and ignore the things going on around me. It was a lot easier but when I opened my eyes I couldn't stay quiet anymore. So much hurt around me was no longer able to be ignored. If you're not outraged by what's going on in the world around us... you're not paying attention.
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Marching Band, celebrating the launching of polio National Immunisation Day at Shinile. ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2015/Meklit Mersha
Finally immunized and getting out of the house again. Saw this and had to get a photo. My 1972 BMW R60/5 an a 1956 Oval windows Beetle.
... I'm not kidding, this ain't no color correction. She's actually turning pale during her second shot.
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Mothers and their children being immunized in one of the outreach programs in East Pokot, Kenya
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
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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Mothers and their children being immunized in one of the outreach programs in East Pokot, Kenya
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.
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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(right) Three-and-a-half-year-old Anastasia Veretka smiles prior to receiving a vaccine at a medical facility in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine, Thursday 16 March 2017..
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Ukraine last year had one of the lowest routine immunization coverage rates in the world. As of December 2016, according to data from Ukraine’s Ministry of Health, only 45.5% of children in Ukraine were fully immunized against measles, only 29%, against hepatitis B, and only 23% of against diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus. About 60% of children under one-year are fully immunized against polio. A number of factors have contributed to the decline in vaccination coverage in Ukraine over the past years, including distrust by the public and media of vaccines and immunization services. Additionally, a shortage of vaccine supplies compounded critically low immunization rates. To address this, at the request of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, UNICEF procured a number of high quality certified vaccines to protect children against dangerous vaccine-preventable diseases.
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A young boy receiving immunization vaccines /
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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.
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
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.
Photo Credit: Allan Gichigi/MCSP
Mothers and their children being immunized in one of the outreach programs in East Pokot, Kenya
Women are immunized against cervical cancer and pap smears are conducted in the HPV Immunisation room. Bogota, Colombia. Instituto Nacional de Cancerología
A woman breastfeeding at a clinic in Marmalade, Haiti. This clinic 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
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.
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.
A health worker giving a measles vaccine to a child in Amhara Region south Wollo zone at Hike IDP center. The launch of regional vaccination campaign in Amhara Region of 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