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More people in BC will start to receive invitations for a COVID-19 booster shot as the Province continues its COVID-19 immunization plan, prioritizing BC’s elderly and most at-risk through to the December holiday.
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Photo: Applying a dissolving microneedle patch. The microneedles dissolve within minutes after insertion into skin to release encapsulated drug or vaccine.
A National Institutes of Health-funded study led by a team at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University has shown that an influenza vaccine can produce robust immune responses and be administered safely with an experimental patch of dissolving microneedles. The method is an alternative to needle-and-syringe immunization; with further development, it could eliminate the discomfort of an injection as well as the inconvenience and expense of visiting a flu clinic.
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LUCKNOW, UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA, November 8, 2009: British Rotarians immunize children in the streets of Lucknow during the polio immunization campaign in Northern India.
Rotarians Pam Joyce and Jackie Berry work at a polio vaccination booths on the first day of the campaign.
The drive is part of the campaign to eradicate polio in India and target the high-risk area of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, vaccination drives every 6 to 8 weeks. (photo Jean-Marc Giboux)
Mariah Herrera, Milagros Gaytan-Campos and Ariel Smith are armed against the flu and caught up on their adolescent vaccines!
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.
Christian Mooney, an administrative support technician in the Warrior Clinic, braces for her seasonal flu shot. Immunization is required for health-care workers with direct contact with patients.
Premier John Horgan, Adrian Dix, Minister of Health, Dr. Bonnie Henry, BC's provincial health officer, and Dr. Penny Ballem, executive lead of the BC immunization rollout, make an announcement about the next steps in BC's COVID-19 Immunization Plan on January 22, 2021.
Tobia’s Guardian Pharmacy of Northbrook was one of 4 pharmacies in the KFL&A Region to receive AstraZeneca vaccines.
Excerpts from Frontenac News, March 10, 2021, by Jeff Green (see full story at frontenacnews.ca)
“The doses need to be used by the end of March, because they have an expiry date coming up, and they are targeted at 60-64 year old patients.
Like all of the pharmacies that the News contacted, Tobia's Pharmacy in Northbrook answered the call for an expression of interest to be part of a vaccination pilot project, which was put out by KFL&A Public Health in February. They also contacted the pharmacy association several times to see if anything was being planned.
“I did not hear anything about what was being planned, except that it was being worked on,” said Eric Tobia, pharmacist and owner, when contacted by the News this week. “I was expecting that it would be a small program with a few dozen doses. The call I received was on Thursday (March 4) at 4pm, saying I would be getting 500 doses on Monday (March 8) for people aged 60-64 people, and they have to be all used by April 1st. It's been a scramble since then.”
Tobia had to get himself and his staff vaccinated first, at the Invista Centre in Kingston, and then there was online training over the weekend.
In the end, the vaccine delivery has been delayed until Friday, March 12 (at the earliest). He is considering holding a clinic sometime over the next two weeks.
“Nothing is finalised, however. We can't make final plans until the vaccine arrives,” he said, adding that the pharmacy will not be taking reservations over the phone and people should not call.
“We will contact our clients directly, ad we might consider an online tool later on” he said.
Pop up mass clinics are being organised for Northbrook, Harrowsmith and Sharbot Lake, starting in April. There will be one clinic a week, rotating between the three communities.
The provincial government anticipates that, in April, the vaccination program as a whole will be extended to people who are between the ages of 70 and 79.”
On March 17th, Jeff Green reports in the Frontenac News:
"The Lakelands Family Health Team, in Northbrook, ran a clinic on Friday (March 12), at the local Lions Hall.
“We vaccinated 170 people, including 2 from our standby list,” said Janice Powell, Administrator of the family health team. “It took some great work by our staff to call everyone, explain the process to them, hand out consent forms in advance, and organise the clinic. All in a couple of days. The patients were very excited to get their shot, many of them have been isolated for a year now, and they see this as the way to end that. It was a great day.”
Because the locations of the pharmacies are listed on the provincial governments website, Ontario.ca, and KFL&A is the only region east of Toronto that is part of the pilot project, the rural pharmacies have been over-run with phone calls.
In Sharbot Lake, a number of people from Ottawa have been using the service because it is the closest location where it is offered. One man who got his shot first thing in the morning on March 16, said that he booked online, and managed to get through to the store on the phone on Monday to confirm the booking.
“I told them I was coming from Ottawa and they said that was fine, so I came and it was quick and easy. I have a parent in long-term care and I;m looking forward to being able to visit.”
Eric Tobia, from the Northbrook Guardian Pharmacy, has had a staff member calling his clients to set up appointments.
“I only had two days notice, and there wasn’t enough time to organise an online system.,” he said.
He said the phone has been ringing non-stop and he has kept a waiting list of over 500 names, from all over the Province.
“I will start calling back when we are done with our own customers.
It has been kinds of crazy, between changes in the rules from the government and the phone calls, we have been very busy. At least one family showed up from Ottawa, without even calling, asking if they could come in and get a shot. We had to send them away,” he said."
Note: Many residents in the 60-64 age group were also vaccinated in Tobia’s Pharmacy on March 15th with the AstraZeneca vaccine.
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.
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.
Childhood Immunizations are being given for the next three weeks at the Breath of Life Children's Clinic at 21715 Kingsland Boulevard. Sally Watson of Katy holds her son, George Watson, 6, first grader at WoodCreek Elementary as he receives immunizations in both arms. Suzanne Rehak/For the Chronicle
On the front line against malaria: Army medical researchers in Kenya mark World Malaria Day 2010
By Rick Scavetta, U.S. Army Africa
KISUMU, Kenya – Hundreds of local people gathered Sunday at Kit Mikayi primary school to mark World Malaria Day 2010 with educational skits, songs and dance.
Among them was Lt. Col. Maria Bovill, director of U.S. Army Medical Research Unit-Kenya’s Kombewa Clinical Research Center – where research into the world’s first phase three clinical trial of a malaria vaccine is underway.
The daylong event offered a great opportunity for the people to share information about the advances of malaria research and reiterate prevention measures with the community, Bovill said.
“This is important for the community where we work, to recognize the advancements in malaria research and prevention,” Bovill said. “I’m proud to be a part of it.”
Crowds danced on the school’s soccer field to live music performed by local musicians who tailored their lyrics to the day’s message – wiping out malaria in Africa. People presented skits to dispel malaria myths and stress preventative measures. Screenings for malaria and HIV were available, as were immunizations and pharmacy prescriptions.
“We all hope that one day this disease will no longer be a reality of everyday life for so many people,” Bovill said, during her remarks at the event.
In the U.S., malaria campaigns over the weekend ranged from photo exhibits to baseball stadiums. In several cities, people slept outside under mosquito nets to raise awareness. Media events were held in Europe, Asia and Africa.
But the front line in the fight against malaria is arguably near Kisumu, along the shores of Lake Victoria in Kenya’s Nyanza province. Home to the Luo people, the area is where President Barack Obama’s father came from. Some of Obama’s paternal family still lives nearby. The World Malaria Day event took place a stone’s throw from Kit-Mikayi, a 70-foot tall rock formation sacred to the Luo people.
“We took time to come here today to show our local community that we are dedicated, to be here with them and recognize the fight against malaria,” said Agnes Onyango, who works alongside Bovill at the Kombewa Clinical Research Center. “We let people know that adding vaccine trials to other efforts can work, so malaria stops killing the innocent.”
In a statement released Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton launched a new six-year strategy to combat malaria. The goal is to cut malaria illnesses and deaths by 50 percent in most affected countries of sub-Saharan Africa by 2014.
U.S. Army medical researchers have been combating disease in East Africa for more than four decades. In 1969, Kenya invited the U.S. Army to study trypanosomiasis, a parasitic disease transmitted by the tsetse fly. In 1973, the unit was permanently established in Nairobi, working through an agreement with the Kenya Medical Research Institute.
USAMRU-K has a staff of 12 U.S. Army Soldiers, two Army civilians and over 500 Kenyan contractors – a mix of doctors, nurses, scientists, laboratory technicians and administrative staff who work together to research, test and prevent disease. They collaborate with Kenyan health officials, U.S. civilian and military organizations, private companies and universities, plus nongovernmental organizations and non-profit foundations.
With the establishment of U.S. Army Africa, USAMRU-K is now coordinating its established missions with new Army initiatives on the continent. USAMRU-K, known locally as the Walter Reed Project, is named for U.S. Army Maj. Walter Reed, who in 1900 discovered mosquitoes transmit yellow fever. Now, USAMRU-K efforts are focused on malaria – another disease transmitted through infected mosquitoes.
With U.S. Army Africa Soldiers and U.S. Africa Command service members performing more missions on the continent, USAMRU-K’s role in Africa serves as a model for interaction in Kenya and elsewhere. Additionally, USAMRU-K studies infectious diseases those troops will face in order to determine what force health measures to implement and subsequently, protect the Soldier.
Currently, USAMRU-K is taking part in a vaccine trial that may produce the world’s first malaria vaccine for children. Research participants receive free healthcare for the duration of the three-year study, known to researchers as MAL-55. Later this year, USAMRU-K will undertake another study to gauge the vaccine’s effectiveness specifically in HIV-infected children.
Bovill, an Army dietitian with two-decades in uniform, hails from Raceland, La., a small town roughly 60 miles southwest of New Orleans. In Aug. 2009, she became the head of USAMRU-K’s Muriithi-Wellde Clinical Research Center in Kombewa, just as MAL-55 began.
Fueled by two decades of research, MAL-55 is the first malaria vaccine trial to reach this phase of study. Once proven safe and effective, the vaccine could be marketed to others, she said. The current study is the result of a partnership that includes the nonprofit Malaria Vaccine Initiative and the pharmaceutical company Glaxo Smith Kline.
At Kombewa, 1,000 children, from five to 17 months , already take part. The next step is to find 1,000 more participants as young as six weeks. That means building trust with new mothers in rural villages, who often give birth at home, Bovill said.
“Community relations is very important,” Bovill said. “The key ingredient is our staff of 70 field workers, whom we rely upon to explain the study to local people.”
During World Malaria Day, the study’s field workers – young Kenyans who interact with potential study volunteers from the community – performed a dramatic scene and recited a poem in Luo, before declaring loudly to the disease itself that they were there to “push you out of Kenya, Africa and the whole world.”
Like most people in the community, Calvin Odhiambo, 23, has firsthand experience with the disease. That motivates him as he explains the vaccine research to others.
“Today, we celebrate efforts made together to take initiative, measures to reduce or eradicate malaria – from mosquito nets and drug tests to further vaccine research,” Odhiambo said. “The community here is very optimistic.”
Sometimes people are hard to persuade, which is the reason why public events such as World Malaria Day are so important, said Maureen Ochieng, a 25-year-old field representative who is often going door-to-door to explain the study to mothers of young children.
“To one woman I said ‘go listen to the briefing, see where you end up. She went, understood what she heard and consented. She is now a very cooperative volunteer.”
In a few months, Tom Onyano Oludhe will be a father. The 25-year-old field representative for USAMRU-K's malaria vaccine research grew up hearing of people crippled with polio, a disease he saw eliminated in his lifetime. When he is out in the community discussing the malaria study with potential participants, he often thinks about how his own child may not have to endure the effects of malaria.
“It’s satisfying to know that malaria may one day be out of the question, like measles or polio,” Oludhe said. “Even more satisfying is to know that I was a part of it and how I can tell my children that. I’m privileged. “
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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
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.
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.
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.
YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan (Dec. 28, 2020) - Staff Sgt. Shakeyla Moses, 374th Healthcare Operations Squadron NCO in charge of allergy immunizations, administers the first Moderna COVID-19 vaccines at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Dec. 28, 2020. The first wave of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine shipments were delivered to Yokota Air Base on Dec. 26. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Juan Torres) 201228-F-KG439-1118
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Rotary International advocacy visit to Ethiopia to support the polio eradication efforts and participate in the National Polio Immunization campaign ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2015/Meklit Mersha
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.
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.
Village Ð Alikia, Block-Chandanpur CHS, Dist-Puri, Odisha, INDIA..Supriya Pradhan, 20 days child, 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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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. Pictured are ward nurses and student nurses giving BCG vaccines to a baby.
Photo Credit: Karen Kasmauski/MCSP and Jhpiego
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.
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
Photo Credit: Allan Gichigi/MCSP
Nurses discuss the ministry of health immunization chart, Kisumu, Kenya
Photo Credit: Allan Gichigi/MCSP
A mother with her daughter after immunization in Igembe, Meru, Kenya 2016
Breakthrough Action used giant puppets to attract attention, inform the population and direct vaccination clients to outreach sites.
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
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. Pictured are ward nurses and student nurses giving a baby a regular check-up.
Photo Credit: Karen Kasmauski/MCSP and Jhpiego
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
Photo Credit: Allan Gichigi/MCSP
Dr. Paul (in green) plus staff from the hospital look at the newly renovated store, Chemolingot, Kenya
Photo Credit: Allan Gichigi/MCSP
Pupils receive oral vitamin A supplementation at their school in Bungoma County, Kenya 2016
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. Pictured are ward nurses and student nurses giving BCG vaccines to babies.
Photo Credit: Karen Kasmauski/MCSP and Jhpiego
A little girl is looking at the syringe in her arm during immunization at Bossangoa’s health center, 17 December 2008.
A day of immunizations and blood draws for two in our house. I think the baby did better than me. :)
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
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.
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)
WESTPOINT, Liberia - February 3, 2015
Vaccines resume at Star of the Sea clinic as Ebola cases subside and general health care services can return. At the height of the Ebola epidemic, most hospitals were forced to close their doors to anyone but Ebola patients, resulting in an increase of pregnant women dying from preventable causes. However, the Star of the Sea clinic, run by Catholic Relief Services with support from USAID, is now providing critical health care services including triage, delivering newborn babies, and continuing vital childhood immunizations. As the Ebola situation improves, these efforts to strengthen primary health care are providing for the needs of mothers and children.
Photo by Neil Brandvold, USAID
The international Rotarian polio advocacy group along with the Ethiopia National PolioPlus Committee Chair and Vice Chair, visit the UNICEF offices to discuss polio eradication efforts. Following introductions, and a briefing on the polio outbreak response, the group discussed challenges and solutions for the polio programme with the Health Section immunization tem. Gillian Mellsop, Country Representative to UNICEF Ethiopia, welcomed the group and thanked them for their unwavering support and partnership for polio immunization efforts in Ethiopia and worldwide. The group visit comes as part of the larger, group visit of 28 international Rotarians to Ethiopia for polio immunization and advocacy. 6 October 2015. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2015/Sewunet
Quezon City, Philippines May 17, 2011. A Filipino boy Gabriel age 7 of Barangay San Antonio in Quezon City Philippines reacts after being shot with free vaccine 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.
South Sudan, 2020: “To keep children healthy, parents must bring them to the health centres for vaccinations. That is how we prevent infections,” says Lucy, holding her boy Amin. The world has made such tremendous progress that, in 2018, 86% of the world’s children received the vaccines they need to grow up healthy. But unacceptable gaps remain. Here in South Sudan, just 44% of children receive the recommended vaccines. That leaves communities at serious risk of outbreaks and, as the COVID-19 pandemic has shown, an outbreak anywhere is a threat to countries everywhere. We are only as safe as the most vulnerable communities. So as we celebrate progress for children like Amin, we must also commit to reaching those who have been left behind.
© UNICEF/UNI314700/Ryeng
To learn more: UNICEF's Agenda for Action
ROBIN, HAITI - DECEMBER 16, 2014
Solita Melus (33) holds her baby, Orelus Kerlens Melus after he receives immunizations and is weighed by Ketcia Orilius (37), a community health worker in Haiti. Three months old, Orelus weighs in at 5 kilos, a weight that Ketcia will track on her tablet. Provided by USAID, these tablets are magnifying the work of Ketcia and other health workers in Haiti, allowing them to easily and efficiently store and track the health information and status of their patients. She will also use the tablet to record the vaccinations that she gives to Orelus, including diphtheria, TB, polio and meningitis. Ketcia became a community health worker after being nominated by her community. The training provided by USAID has empowered her to improve the health of women and children in her area and prepare kids for healthier, stronger futures. Solita, Orelus’ mom, could not be more appreciative. Referring to Ketcia, she says, “She is a very good person. She is gentle with the baby and takes good care of the baby.”
David Rochkind, USAID