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"The recent global focus on immunization inequity and the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the critical role that trust, demand, and quality play in encouraging vaccination uptake so that immunization programs are both valued by and can reach everyone." Immunisation service experience (SE) includes the factors within and beyond the interactions betwee

Cameroon to vaccinate over 1 mln children against polio-

Cameroon to vaccinate over 1 mln children against polio-

YAOUNDE, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- Cameroon will target 1,004,000 children under the age of five years in a polio immunization campaign next month, a Ministry of Public Health official said Monday.

Ahead of this year’s World Polio Day on October 24, the Rotary Club Accra- Airport has organized a breakfast meeting in Accra to raise funds in support of the eradication of the disease. Proceeds from the fundraising would support the Polio Plus Fund, through which Rotary International, with its international…

To ensure that children amongst Afar’s remote nomadic communities receive health services, health workers hit the road.

In February 2022, a year and a half after the continent was declared indigenous wild poliovirus-free, the virus resurfaced in south-eastern Africa. As the Global Polio Eradication Initiative kicks off pledging to fund the 2022-2026 strategy, VaccinesWork dives into what exactly happened in Malawi and Mozambique, where eight children have been paralysed by an infectious threat that really isn’t over until it’s over everywhere.

12-day inoculation campaign ends in 22 districts...

Official says people reluctant to inoculate children being convinced...

Official says people reluctant to inoculate children being convinced.