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Habibo Buhow Nunow, 57 years old, waits for her children to be vaccinated against polio in Hamar Jajab district in Mogadishu, Somalia on 28 October 2020.
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed what is at stake when communities do not have the protective shield of immunization against an infectious disease. When vaccines are available, they are the most effective tool to prevent dangerous disease outbreaks.
Staying informed about their benefits and understanding the risks of not getting vaccinated has never been so important. Community mobilizers play an instrumental role in this.
During the recent polio immunization campaign, 8 951 vaccinators went from door to door and 3,390 community mobilizers sensitized the target communities. The two-part campaign, organized by the federal Ministry of Health, UNICEF and WHO, reached more than a million children under the age of five in south and central regions of Somalia.
Credit: UNICEF Somalia
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Sears' goal is "to give you a balanced look at pros and cons of vaccination so that you can make an educated decision." Sears does not advocate for or rail against vaccination, stating it doesn't have to be an all or nothing decision-there are choices. The first 12 chapters discuss each vaccination in the childhood series, providing explanation of the relative disease, how the vaccine is made and points to assess a child's at-risk level when considering if the vaccine is necessary.
Fiona Goettler, 5, (cq) gets three immunizations Monday from Medical Clinical Assistant, Sue Capri (cq) at Providence Medical Group in Portland. Lia Miles (cq) is helping her daughter through the #2 MMR, #4 IPV and #5 DTaP which complete Fiona's required shots so she can begin school this fall. Capri instructed Fiona to take a big yoga breath; Capri says that's her secret to helping kids through getting shots.
First 5 California Executive Director Kris Perry on set at the Jim Henson Company lot for Sid the Science Kid PSA shoot.
Mass Polio Vaccination Campaign Supported by WHO and UNICEF Kicks Off in Iraq
11 August 2014 – Iraq has launched a polio immunization campaign aiming to protect over four million children under the age of 5 throughout the country against the crippling disease.
The four-day campaign, undertaken by the Ministry of Health with the support of WHO and UNICEF, is part of the national response to the re-emergence of the polio virus earlier this year which ended nearly 14 years of Iraq's polio-free status.
“This campaign comes at a critical time while the country is witnessing a huge internal exodus of children fleeing violence and turmoil,” said Marzio Babille, UNICEF Iraq Representative. “This is a top priority for UNICEF. No child should be missed. No child should be paralysed.”
The campaign aims to reach children in conflict zones, displaced communities and host populations. The on-going violence in the country has precipitated the internal displacement of nearly 1.2 million people since the beginning of the year. Almost 200,000 have been displaced only in the last three days alone. UNICEF estimates half of that number are children.
“As the violence spreads, children are being displaced up to three times with their families, often living in overcrowded conditions where they are at a much higher risk of contracting infectious diseases,” said Dr Syed Jaffar Hussain, WHO Iraq Representative. “WHO is working with the national health authorities and partners to ensure that the health of all vulnerable populations, especially children, is protected against diseases like Polio.”
With two cases of polio in Iraq and a relatively high number of unvaccinated children due to difficulties in accessing families and children, especially in conflict zones and due to social reservations, Iraq has now become vulnerable to a wider outbreak of the crippling and incurable disease. WHO and UNICEF are helping health authorities reach children in 12 governorates, including the three governorates in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq where approximately 250,000 Iraqi children and 125,000 Syrian children have taken refuge.
“Iraq is one of seven countries included in a consolidated polio response plan by WHO and UNICEF that aims to reach 25 million children in the region with repeated doses of the vaccine. Everything possible must be done to reach all children and end polio forever,” said Chris Maher, WHO manager for polio eradication.
For more Information, please contact:
Juliette Touma, on mission to UNICEF Iraq, jtouma@unicef.org, +964-780-9-288-265 or +962-79-867-4628
Karim El-Korany, UNICEF Iraq, kelkorany@unicef.org, +964-780-92-585-42
Bahaaeldin Elkoussy, WHO polio programme, elkoussyb@who.int, +201006019316
Ajyal Al-Sultany, WHO Iraq, sultanya@who.int, +964 7809 269 506
A shot of my ultra-active friend - Yus.
I asked this restless young man to sit still for 6 seconds so I'd be able to experiment with the "9-exposure-HDR" processing.
It wasn't what I really had in mind, but it's decent enough.
Anyways, this shot was taken at Kampung Genting, Tioman, Malaysia.
(Left to Right)
Dr. Kerry Gateley, WV Immunization Network Co-Chair;
Delegate Don Perdue;
Senator Ron Stollings;
First Lady Gayle Manchin;
Mickey Plymale, Wayne County Health Department;
Tim Allman, WV Immunization Network Co-Chair
Photo by Martin Valent, West Virginia Legislative Photography
Lady Health Supervisor, Lipika Sonawal Saikia, opens a pack of Oral Rehydration Salt to explain its importance and demonstrate its usage to the mothers visiting for the routine immunization of their babies at Greenwood Tea Estate Hospital in Dibrugarh, Assam.
First baby vaccinated in Roorkee, Utterakhand, India on February 11th. Vaccination was done my Dana McCoy from Illinois.
The Polio Immunization Campaign targets particularly southern provinces, like Farah, Helmand, and Kandahar.
The Ministry of Public Health and its international partners have decided to join efforts together with the local communities to fight the ongoing spread of polio, particularly in security- compromised areas. WHO and UNICEF are contributing technical and financial assistance to the Ministry of Public Health for the optimum implementation of the campaign.
Photo: Fraidoon Poya/UNAMA.
dr mini salunkha is a Gynecologist in Fatima Nagar, Pune and has an ordeal of 27 years in this field. Dr. Smaller than normal Salunkhe hones at Inamdar Multispeciality Hospita l in Fatima Nagar, Pune, Express Clinic in Magarpatta City, Pune and Cloudnine Hospital in Kalyani Nagar, Pune.
She finished MBBS from Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj University, Nagpur in 1987 and MD - Obstetrics and Gynecology from Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj University, Nagpur in 1990.
She is an individual from Federation of Obstetrics and Gynecological Societies of India (FOGSI). A portion of the administrations gave by the specialist are: Hysterectomy (Abdominal/Vaginal), Vaccination/Immunization, Normal Vaginal Delivery (NVD), Ultrasonography - Pelvic and In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF) and so forth.
Representatives, Robin Mowson and Tori Decca, senior program analysts, on the Immunization Team, at the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), travel to Monongalia County Health Department, in Morgantown, West Virginia, to conduct a field visit on March 15, 2023. The pair visited the local health department as part of NACCHO’s effort to maintain and promo positive organizational partnerships. In conducting these field visits, NACCHO seeks to understand how local health departments have increased the community’s confidence of the LHD; leveraged partnerships and coalition-building skills; and approaches to effect change in communities. (Photos by Robin Mowson, Tori Decca, and MaryWade Burnside)
Lady Health Supervisor, Lipika Sonawal Saikia, demonstrates the usage of Oral Rehydration Salt to mothers visiting for the routine immunization of their babies at Greenwood Tea Estate Hospital in Dibrugarh, Assam.
Our team witnessed unique processes that have been adopted in resource-limited Tanzania. The busiest section of this open-air clinic is the waiting patio for immunizations, where mothers and their infants, in batches of six, enter a room with a single nurse.
This is Sunita Singh, an auxilary nurse and midwife in Manota. She basically runs the routine immunization booth which consists of a place where people can get immunizations.
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Virus Updates: US Passes 12M Cases; 1st Immunizations Could Arrive on Dec. 12
The United States topped 12 million cases of Covid-19 on Sunday, as the third wave's uncontrolled spread prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to urge Americans not to travel for Thanksgiving.
The country recorded more than 200,000 coronavirus cases over the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 12,002,863, according to NBC News' tally. The total number of deaths is 255,567.
More than 40 states plus Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Guam are experiencing a percentage increase in cases from over the past 14 days. Of those, a dozen states are seeing a spike in new cases.
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Daily California coronavirus cases triple as pandemic dramatically worsens
NOV. 22, 20207:29 AM UPDATED3:30 PM
SAN FRANCISCO — California’s average daily number of coronavirus cases has tripled in the last month, a Times analysis has found, as pandemic conditions deteriorated dramatically around the state.
The coronavirus is now infecting more Californians daily than at any previous point in the COVID-19 pandemic, raising concerns about a new peak in coronavirus-related deaths by Christmas.
As of Saturday night, California was averaging more than 11,500 new coronavirus cases a day over the last seven days, more than triple the number a month earlier, on Oct. 21, which was nearly 3,200, according to a Times analysis.
Even during the summertime surge, which led to the season with California’s worst COVID-19 death toll, the average daily number of coronavirus cases over a seven-day period never exceeded 10,000.
COVID-19 hospitalizations have doubled in the last month, the analysis found. And COVID-19 deaths have suddenly begun to climb in recent days. In the last week, an average of 65 Californian deaths have been reported daily, a more than 50% increase from two weeks ago, when 43 fatalities were reported daily on average.
The rate at which Californians are testing positive for the coronavirus was up dramatically in the last week — a troubling indication of the rapid spread of the highly contagious virus. On Saturday, the coronavirus positivity rate hit 6.1%, double the percentage it was on Nov. 1, when the rate was 2.98%.
A baby receives an immunization at a clinic run by the USAID-funded IMMUNIZATION Basics project. JSI implements this project to increase the ability of governments and collaborating organizations to deliver quality routine immunization services.
Photo: JSI
Well, we can all rest assured that Millie shan't contract polio. Her
most recent visit to see her pediatrician (whose offices are a scant
one block away) resulted in two thighs-ful of some of the most
dreadful diseases known to humankind.
She was a trooper. Though there were a few tears at the time, she was
soon displaying her battle wounds proudly.