This exercise marked the first large-scale round of the polio vaccination campaign after a circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) was confirmed in May. Uganda’s Ministry of Health has completed the polio immunization targeting 2.7 million children under five in the eastern part of the country after the virus outbreak was detected there in May, […]

The campaign was launched in cooperation with the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund and Palestinian health authorities with the aim of vaccinating some 640,000 children under the age of ten. On Friday, an official with the UN agency tasked with helping the Palestinians warned that the polio vaccination campaign in Gaza faces […]

The health portfolio stated that its vaccination plan includes the formation of health teams and the definition of vaccination centres.

The health authorities of Guatemala launched a mass vaccination campaign to combat measles and polio on Saturday The aim is to reach more than one million children aged between 2 and 5 throughout the country. RELATED: Cote D’Ivoire: Malaria Vaccine to Expanded Immunization Program The Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare opened the campaign […]

On Tuesday, South Sudan and United Nations agencies launched a nationwide polio campaign, aiming to vaccinate 3.1 million children. RELATED: Sudan’s Darfur: Cross-Border Aid Delivered From Chad, UN According to the Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), three variant poliovirus cases have been confirmed in three […]

On Tuesday, the Zimbabwean government, in cooperation with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization, launched a nationwide polio vaccination campaign targeting about 4 million children under the age of 10. RELATED: Zimbabwe: Cholera Vaccination Campaign to start Next Week This follows the government’s confirmation of circulating poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) […]