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Ldquo;Days of tranquility” can help vaccinations to continue even in the midst of conflict. The idea caught the imagination of an artist:. Read more from the Art of Saving a Life. You've seen the hashtag, now dig deeper into global immunisation.
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Ldquo;Days of tranquility” can help vaccinations to continue even in the midst of conflict. The idea caught the imagination of an artist:. Read more from the Art of Saving a Life. Reblogged this from vaccineswork. You've seen the hashtag, now dig deeper into global immunisation.
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Vaccines work • Posts Tagged ‘vaccines’
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This week in vaccines. This week marked 10 years since the release of the first vaccine against HPV. Which helps prevent a major cause of cervical cancer around the world. The shot has had a remarkable impact where uptake has been high, but still has many more girls and boys to reach before it can meet its lifesaving potential. Paediatricians in the US faced up to the realities of parents who refuse vaccination for their children in a new report. This week in vaccines. The Girl Who Could Do Anything.
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Mind the gap: vaccine disparity claiming women’s lives. The delivery of human papillomavirus vaccine (HPV) to protect women from cervical cancer is a key step globally in closing the preventable disease gap between rich and poor women worldwide. Here we look at how this plays out for women in Tanzania. All photos: Gavi / Karel Prinsloo. Nurse Rehema Nkomola examines a woman for cervical cancer. Global deaths from cervical cancer have increased 40% since 1990, to 266,000. Waiting around is not an option f...
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The Girl Who Could Do Anything. Senior consultant in photography and communications for development. First, there was Wandee. A baby girl, born in a wooden house as the rains receded from the rice fields, 55 years ago. Her mother was about 20. Her dad, 25. “My parents were very poor,” Wandee remembers. “But we could grow everything we needed on our land.”. The river Wandee grew up on. It runs into the Mekong, just a few hundreds metres away. In the meantime a new baby was born - this one, a girl. &ld...
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Vaccines work • Posts Tagged ‘pakistan’
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This week in vaccines. This week saw organisations come together to celebrate World Hepatitis Day. And call for elimination of the disease in the face of a g rowing number of deaths. Including vaccines for types A and B. After good news from Nigeria last week, Pakistan this week renewed efforts to fight polio. And to strengthen the immunisation system. Further afield, celebrations in Indonesia. Marked their introduction of the inactivated polio vaccine, cementing progress against the disease. Vaccine res...
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In photos: healthcare and vaccination in Alere, Uganda. Together, UNICEF and European Commission for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (ECHO) support a range of services in Alere, a Ugandan settlement close to the country’s northern border with South Sudan. UNICEF Uganda’s photo gallery. Provides a window into what this means for the families living there, many of whom are refugees. All photos: UNICEF Uganda/Michele Sibiloni. Sister Annet immunises another child against measles. A child undergoes nut...
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Vaccines work • Posts Tagged ‘immunization’
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This week in vaccines. This week marked 10 years since the release of the first vaccine against HPV. Which helps prevent a major cause of cervical cancer around the world. The shot has had a remarkable impact where uptake has been high, but still has many more girls and boys to reach before it can meet its lifesaving potential. Paediatricians in the US faced up to the realities of parents who refuse vaccination for their children in a new report. This week in vaccines. The Girl Who Could Do Anything.
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Vaccines work • Posts Tagged ‘illustration’
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Great cartoon by Maki Naro. Explains how vaccines work, and why we need to immunise ourselves against misinformation. Originally posted on Fusion. A vaccine dream for the future, by illustrator Sophie Blackall. Read more from the Art of Saving a Life. You've seen the hashtag, now dig deeper into global immunisation.
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Vaccines work • Posts Tagged ‘polio’
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This week in vaccines. This week saw the launch of a massive emergency vaccine campaign in DRC,. Using 1/5 of the normal dose, stretching supply to protect 10 million people before the beginning of the rainy season. And as the infographic shows. It’s mobilising a huge volume of resources. A similar campaign also began in Angola, and questions were raised. Around whether this disease had the potential to become the next pandemic. Campaigns to defeat polio. That eradication could and would be achieved soon.