With a price drop to below $1 a dose, UNICEF has successfully secured a five-in-one vaccine for children at half the price the agency currently pays, which will allow it to buy 450 million doses for 80 countries over...
The United Nations Children’s Fund and the World Health Organization are set to donate typhoon-and earthquake-resistant vaccines and immunization equipment in an effort to ensure the cold chain storage management of...
The United Nations Children’s Fund, (Unicef), World Health Organization (WHO) and the government have joined to re-establish the national immunization program by rebuilding the cold chain infrastructure which was...
Ethiopia will begin protecting the 2.8 million children born in the country each year with a vaccine against rotavirus, which leads to severe, and often fatal, diarrhoea. The country has one of the greatest burdens of...
As Syria awaits confirmation of suspected polio cases in the east of the country, UNICEF has joined the World Health Organisation and other partners in mounting a large-scale immunisation effort aimed at protecting as...
In an attempt to reduce the children-under-five mortality rate and expand the coverage of the national vaccination program, the government has launched the pentavalent vaccine, a vaccine that combines five antigens —...
Following the successful trial of a new malaria vaccine currently developed and tested in the United States, the United Nations Children Education Fund, (UNICEF), has described it as a welcome development. According to...
The GAVI Alliance has approved US$ 21 million to help improve vaccine supply chains in Nigeria as part of a partnership aimed at scaling up routine immunization. The funds will be used by Nigeria’s National...
The government of Bangladesh issued a call to action to end preventable child deaths in the country by 2035. The government plans to build on the progress made in reducing maternal and child mortality in the past 40...
Funding for cold chain equipment and improved data collection to support Nigeria’s Saving One Million Lives Initiative. The GAVI Alliance has approved US$ 21 million to help improve vaccine supply chains in Nigeria as...