Global immunization has saved an estimated 154 million lives over the last 50 years. WHO, UNICEF, Gavi, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have played an important part in this achievement.
Hundreds of underprivileged residents of Kalinga province in the Philippines received free medical and dental services during an outreach event.
UNICEF’S “Sponsor a Child” initiative works with young, enthusiastic volunteers to help counter outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases.
More than 330,000 doses of WHO-recommended RTS,S malaria vaccine went to Cameroon, with an additional 1.7 million doses set for delivery to Burkina Faso, Liberia, Niger and Sierra Leone in the coming weeks.