UNICEF warns that Israel’s blockade of syringes and baby formula is endangering children in Gaza, where vaccination rates have plummeted amid the destruction of the health system.

Local health authorities criticized false vaccine information from federal officials. On Monday, the Big Cities Health Coalition, a forum for the leaders of the largest U.S. metropolitan health departments, criticized false vaccine information from federal officials and urged Americans to get vaccinated as the respiratory virus season approaches. RELATED: Guatemala On Alert For Whooping Cough […]

Colombia’s yellow fever outbreak totals 54 cases and 22 deaths, with a 40.7% fatality rate. The Ministry of Health declares an alert in 388 municipalities and prioritizes vaccination as the virus spreads to non-endemic zones. Related: Colombia is facing its worst yellow fever outbreak in decades, with 54 confirmed cases and 22 deaths since October […]

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 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 Thursday, Ecuador will intensify the vaccination against Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) in 14-year-old girls and for the first time will immunize nine-year-old boys. RELATED: Ecuador: Noboa Decrees Emergency State in 5 Coastal Provinces The decision is part of a campaign that will run until 30 June, according to information from the Ministry of Public […]

On Tuesday, the Zimbabwean government extended oral cholera vaccination in the capital Harare amid a marked decline in new cases countrywide. RELATED: Zimbabwe: Polio Vaccination Campaign Started, 4 mln Children Due to the decline, the government also authorized the decommissioning of cholera treatment centers in areas where cases have reduced to zero, with the equipment […]

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) […]

On Tuesday, South Sudan and Médecins sans frontières (MSF), an international medical charity, launched a mass vaccination campaign in response to a deadly hepatitis E outbreak in South Sudan. RELATED: S. Sudan: At Least 42 Killed in Fresh Communal Clashes The charity said the vaccination will safeguard women and girls of reproductive age, who are […]