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The yellow fever 'booster' vaccination given ten years after the initial vaccination is not necessary, according to the World Health Organization. WHO
The yellow fever 'booster' vaccination given ten years after the initial vaccination is not necessary, according to the World Health Organization. WHO
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is going ahead with a vaccination campaign at Jordan's Za'atari refugee camp and plans to immunize at least 90,000 against measles and 24,000 under five-years old against polio. UNICEF
At a press conference in Geneva yesterday (17 April) In advance of World Immunization Week, Jean-Marie Okwo-Bele, the World Health Organization's (WHO) Director, of Immunization, Vaccination and Biologicals said that WHO wanted World Immunization Week to be an opportunity to celebrate the growing benefits of vaccination, "the great impact that one can get through vaccines". [...]
A new Global Action Plan launched today by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF has the potential to save up to 2 million children every year from deaths caused by pneumonia and diarrhoea, some of the leading killers of children under five globally. WHO/UNICEF
A campaign against Female Genital Circumcision (FGM) in Somalia has brought in religious scholars and leaders to emphasize that religion does not support the cutting of body parts. UNICEF
Since 2011, UNICEF and the Haitian Group for the Study of Kaposi’s Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections (GHESKIO) have formed a partnership to fight cholera in Port-au-Prince. UNICEF
The dramatic increase in security in Somalia recently has allowed for a proportionate increase in humanitarian efforts and projects, like mobile clinics that are being deployed in and around Mogadishu’s Internally Displaced Persons camps. AU/UN IST
On World Cancer Day (4 February), the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)’s Director General Yukiya Amano addresses the myth that cancer affects only rich countries. In fact, seventy percent of the 10 million deaths caused by cancer each year occur in low- and middle-income countries, according to the agency. IAEA
Seventeen-year-old Sunday fromNamibiawas born with HIV. She learnt about her status when she was 13, and embarked on a journey to acceptance and newfound confidence. UNICEF
In Kenya’s remote Samburu County, women and children are getting basic health services as part of a pilot project for “performance-based financing”, a new approach that is spurring health facilities to deliver more health services and meet quality standards. WORLD BANK