Immunization
UNICEF and partners confront the challenges of deploying a coronavirus vaccination campaign amid rising violence and social upheaval.
We have been here before: Lessons learned in the fight against polio are informing the global COVID-19 response.
In Bolivia, UNICEF works with partners to supply and deliver the vaccines needed to protect children from preventable diseases.
Safe vaccine storage & transport requires meticulous attention to detail. Just ask Mitthi Bahadur Jirel, a 29-year hospital staff veteran.
As fears of coronavirus keep some parents from bringing their children to health centers for immunizations, UNICEF vaccinators go to them.
As a decade of violence, economic crisis and now COVID-19 pushes families to the brink, 90 percent of Syria's children need support.
UNICEF-supported polio vaccinators go door-to-door in Pakistan, protecting children from a crippling disease.
Measles claimed 207,500 lives in 2019 — a 50 percent jump in three years — prompting renewed calls for action to protect every child.
The fight against polio is personal for these UNICEF heroes. It can be for you, too. All it takes is $19 to send polio vaccines to 100 kids
UNICEF-supported vaccinators are going door-to-door to immunize Afghanistan's children from polio.
Vaccination campaigns disrupted by COVID-19 have resumed in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the last two polio-endemic countries in the world.
Three lives touched by vaccine-preventable disease, one message: don't take immunization for granted.