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Visita de profissionais de saúde às residências de moradores das comunidades ribeirinhas de Mazagão, Ilha de Santana e Macapá, no estado do Amapá, região norte do Brasil, para vacinação contra o sarampo.
Visita de profesionales de la salud a los hogares de los habitantes de las comunidades ribereñas de Mazagão, Ilha de Santana y Macapá, en el estado de Amapá, región norte de Brasil, para la vacunación contra el sarampión.
Foto: Karina Zambrana - OPAS/OMS
H.E. Dr. Kebede Worku (center) inspecting the immunization records at Feedho Health Post, Fafan Zone, Somali Region during the Polio NIDs Campaign, 10 February 2015. Standing second from left is Dr. Omar Mohamed Farah, Somali Region Health Bureau Head. To his right is Dr. Muse Soyan, UNICEF Regional EPI/Polio Consultant, Somali Region, second from right is Dr. Pierre Mpele-Kilebou, WHO Representative to Ethiopia. ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2015/Getachew
Habibo Mohamed Mahdi, 36, with her three-year-old daughter Mariam Sheikh Nur sit on a mat as they await their turn at the Maternal and Child Health Centre in Hamar-Jajab district of Mogadishu, Somalia, on 19 September 2020. The Somali federal Ministry of Health, supported by the World Health Organisation (WHO), UNICEF, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), and Gavi, recently concluded a mass measles and polio immunization campaign. Nearly half a million children in Mogadishu and Benadir region can now hope for healthier and productive lives, thanks to the UN-supported immunization exercise. UN Photo/Mukhtar Nuur
ANM immunizes a new born child at health center in Aurangabad. Immunisation is one of the most successful public health initiatives. Each year, globally, vaccines avert an estimated 2 to 3 million deaths from life threatening diseases that disproportionally affect children, 400,000 in India where the Ministry of Health carries out the largest immunisation operation in the world, reaching 27 million infants and 30 million pregnant women annually. Under Mission Indradhanush, the Health Ministry has identified 201 high focus districts across the country that have the highest number of partially vaccinated and unvaccinated children. Nearly 50% of all unvaccinated or partially vaccinated children are in these 201 districts. Of the 201 districts, 82 districts are concentrated in the four states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan and nearly 25% of the unvaccinated or partially vaccinated children of India are in 82 districts of these four states. These districts will be targeted for intensive efforts to improve the routine immunization coverage in the country. The ultimate goal is to protect all children and pregnant women against vaccine preventable diseases in India.
UNICEF India/2016/Dhiraj Singh.
Dhiraj Singh's photo coverage in Augangabad, Maharashtra on activities at Anganwadi, school sanitation to support Team Swachh.
In Jan 2011 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.
Participants from UN Foundation Visit Dire health center Bishoftu, Oromia Region Tuesday, 6 August 2019. ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2019/Mulugeta Ayene
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/
Village Samho, Samho Block, Dist. Begusarai, Bihar, INDIA. Ritu Rani, Auxiliary Nurse Midwife (ANM), prepares for immunization as patients sit 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.
H.E Dr Kebede Worku, State Minister of Health, Ms Gillian Mellsop, UNICEF Representative to Ethiopia and guests during the launching of SDD refrigerators programme. ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2018/Mulugeta Ayene
All British Columbians are encouraged to get immunized and reduce the chance of getting the flu and passing it on to others.The influenza vaccine will be available throughout the province by early November at public health clinics, physicians’ offices, travel clinics and pharmacies.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2016HLTH0075-002094
H.E. Dr. Kebede Worku (center) inspecting the immunization records at Feedho Health Post, Fafan Zone, Somali Region during the Polio NIDs Campaign, 10 February 2015 ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2015/Getachew
ANM immunizes a child at health center in Aurangabad. Immunisation is one of the most successful public health initiatives. Each year, globally, vaccines avert an estimated 2 to 3 million deaths from life threatening diseases that disproportionally affect children, 400,000 in India where the Ministry of Health carries out the largest immunisation operation in the world, reaching 27 million infants and 30 million pregnant women annually. Under Mission Indradhanush, the Health Ministry has identified 201 high focus districts across the country that have the highest number of partially vaccinated and unvaccinated children. Nearly 50% of all unvaccinated or partially vaccinated children are in these 201 districts. Of the 201 districts, 82 districts are concentrated in the four states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan and nearly 25% of the unvaccinated or partially vaccinated children of India are in 82 districts of these four states. These districts will be targeted for intensive efforts to improve the routine immunization coverage in the country. The ultimate goal is to protect all children and pregnant women against vaccine preventable diseases in India.
UNICEF India/2016/Dhiraj Singh.
Dhiraj Singh's photo coverage in Aurangabad, Maharashtra on activities at Anganwadi, school sanitation to support Team Swachh.
In a district of the city of Lubumbashi, the population is lining up to be vaccinated by a mobile team.
MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Transformation and Equity in the DRC supported the Ministry of Health's Expanded Programme on Immunization through its provincial coordination in Lubumbashi, to design and implement corrective measures to increase COVID-19 vaccination coverage by at least 20% of the expected target in the capital and province of Kinshasa, the most affected in the DRC.
Photo credit: Charly Nandisa & Sylvain Kabangu/MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Transformation and Equity
ANM immunizes a new born child at health center in Aurangabad. Immunisation is one of the most successful public health initiatives. Each year, globally, vaccines avert an estimated 2 to 3 million deaths from life threatening diseases that disproportionally affect children, 400,000 in India where the Ministry of Health carries out the largest immunisation operation in the world, reaching 27 million infants and 30 million pregnant women annually. Under Mission Indradhanush, the Health Ministry has identified 201 high focus districts across the country that have the highest number of partially vaccinated and unvaccinated children. Nearly 50% of all unvaccinated or partially vaccinated children are in these 201 districts. Of the 201 districts, 82 districts are concentrated in the four states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan and nearly 25% of the unvaccinated or partially vaccinated children of India are in 82 districts of these four states. These districts will be targeted for intensive efforts to improve the routine immunization coverage in the country. The ultimate goal is to protect all children and pregnant women against vaccine preventable diseases in India. UNICEF India/2016/Dhiraj Singh.
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
H.E Dr Kebede Worku, State Minister of Health, Ms Gillian Mellsop, UNICEF Representative to Ethiopia and guests during the launching of SDD refrigerators programme. ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2018/Mulugeta Ayene
H.E Dr Kebede Worku, State Minister of Health, discussing about the importance of the SDD refrigerators with Ms Gillian Mellsop, UNICEF Representative to Ethiopia and Ms Maocura Oulare, chief of Health, UNICEF Ethiopia. ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2018/Mulugeta Ayene
PULI CHARCHI, AFGHANISTAN - JULY 17 - A young refugee shreiks in protest as she receives a measles immunisation at the Puli Charchi refugee encashment centre outside Kabul July 17, 2002. (Photo by Natalie Behring-Chsiholm/Getty Images)
Participants from UN Foundation Visit Dire health center Bishoftu, Oromia Region Tuesday, 6 August 2019. ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2019/Mulugeta Ayene
Immunization experts from WHO/Europe answering questions about immunization during a live Twitter chat on Thursday 26 April 2012.
In Jan 2011 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 ìregularî 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) Districtís 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 thatís what counts. They are then divided up and dispersed to the 27 clinics in the District that have trained personnel to give the vaccines.
Marie Josette Francou (right), a Red Cross nurse, vaccinates a child against cholera in 1953 in Indochina (now Vietnam).
Intercontinentale/AFP via Getty Images
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Jake is not feeling well have getting 4 immunizations today. Why do they have to do so many at one time.
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.
Visita de profissionais de saúde às residências de moradores das comunidades ribeirinhas de Mazagão, Ilha de Santana e Macapá, no estado do Amapá, região norte do Brasil, para vacinação contra o sarampo.
Visita de profesionales de la salud a los hogares de los habitantes de las comunidades ribereñas de Mazagão, Ilha de Santana y Macapá, en el estado de Amapá, región norte de Brasil, para la vacunación contra el sarampión.
Foto: Karina Zambrana - OPAS/OMS
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/
Ms Gillian Mellsop, UNICEF Representative to Ethiopia delivering a keynote speech during the SDD refrigerators programme. ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2018/Mulugeta Ayene
Dr. Getachew Wako, Health Programme Officer briefing Participants from UN Foundation at Chalaba Silassie health post Bishoftu, Oromia Region Tuesday, 6 August 2019. ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2019/Mulugeta Ayene
This Shuar child is receiving her childhood immunizations, including the oral polio vaccine, from a medical student volunteer from the United States. Vaccine preventable illnesses remain a significant cause of childhood morbidity and mortality throughout the world. Children in rural and remote communities often do not receive the vaccinations they need because they live beyond the reach of public health systems. In Ecuador, a partnership between Shuar traditional healers, public health officials, and international NGO’s has brought the vaccinations this girl needs to her in her local village, ensuring she will be protected from preventable diseases as she grows. Photo by Leah Bennett, 2005
Village Samho, Samho Block, Dist. Begusarai, Bihar, INDIA. Ritu Rani, Auxiliary Nurse Midwife (ANM), attends paitents 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.
Afghanistan, August 2023: A vaccinator administers a dose of oral polio vaccine to a baby in Baba-e- Barq clinic (Community Health Centre) in Herat, western Afghanistan.
In July 2023, with the support of UNICEF, 87,823 children were vaccinated against measles, 111,718 children were vaccinated with the Pentavalent 3 vaccine and 238,547 people were vaccinated against COVID-19 as part of the routine immunization program.
© UNICEF/UNI452724/Sharifa Khan
Press release: Global childhood immunization levels stalled in 2023 leaving many without life-saving protection
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/
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/
Fatoumata Traoré and her 9-month-old son Magassoula. Since 9 August, Guinea has recorded 8 cases of poliovirus variant 2 (PVDV2) polio. In response to this outbreak, UNICEF, through the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), is supporting the Government of Guinea in its response to the epidemic by launching a series of 3 national immunization campaigns.
UNICEF, WHO and GAVI went to Siguiri on 8 September to join the Ministry of Health in launching the first round of National Polio Immunization Campaign (Round 0) in Guinea. The first round (Round 0) of this immunization campaign targets children aged 0-59 months, an estimated 582,159 children in the Siguiri health district, as well as in the 4 neighboring districts of Siguiri, including 3 in the Kankan region (Mandiana, Kouroussa, Kankan) and 1 district in the Faranah region (Dinguiraye).
In Siguiri, Dr. Mamadou Péthé Diallo, Minister of Health, and UNICEF symbolically vaccinated a few children in front of communities and the media, officially launching the national immunization campaigns and urging parents to have their children immunized against polio, while reminding them that the vaccine is free, safe and effective.
UNICEF in Guinea participates in the implementation of immunization campaigns, supports routine immunization activities and health services, provides vaccines and logistical support to ensure that vaccines reach all children, even in the most remote areas, and supports awareness raising and community mobilization.
The second round (Round 1) is scheduled for September 22-25, 2023 and will include all 38 health districts in Guinea. The third round (Round 2) is scheduled for October 20-23, 2023, and will also include all 38 health districts in Guinea. To address the intense circulation of the virus in the West Africa region, the next two rounds of this polio immunization campaign will be synchronized with other countries in the sub-region, particularly Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, and Mali, to ensure adequate coverage of populations living at the borders of these countries.
Durllov Mech and wife Dharithri Mech’s ten-month-old daughter, Nandita Mech, holds her vaccination card at Assam Medical College, Dibrugarh. First child of the Mech’s, the parents ensure regular immunization of Nandita to safeguard her health
A women with her 18 months old child has come at a camp in Danapur in Bihar for immunization organized by ministery of Health under the umbrella of Mission Indradhanush. 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.
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