The United Nations Foundation is pleased to share the newly released report, “Leveraging CSO Contributions to Advance Polio Transition and Integration Efforts in the African Region”, co-created with the Consortium of Christian Relief and Development Associations (CCRDA) in Ethiopia; Impact Health Organization (IHO) in South Sudan; Vaccine Network f...

Vaccination coverage in children under 7 years, Guatemala City, November 2022. In 2020, reported vaccination coverage in Guatemala City was 50% for OPV3 and 61% for MMR1, classifying the city as high-risk for polio re-emergence. To report vaccination coverage, the Ministry of Public Health (MSPAS) uses a nominal electronic registry that does not in...

The workshop took place on 22-23 February in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), and was attended by 19 national staff from the Ministries of Health of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar. It was facilitated by experts from the Regional Verification Commission for Measles and Rubella, IVP/EMRO, IVB/WHO HQ, US CDC and temporary advisors. The Eastern...

A new benchmark report on life-course immunization highlights the urgent need for changes in global, regional and national immunization policies and plans to reach WHO’s 2030 Immunization Agenda (IA2030) and the United Nations Decade of Healthy Ageing objectives. The need to extend the benefits of vaccination from early life to include the whole li...

Two new resource collections are available on TechNet-21. Existing technical resources (tools, technical guidance, information documents and databases) are organized in a user-friendly way allowing for structured browsing and comparison of resources. For each resource, a synopsis is provided to allow quick overview of the author, purpose, content, ...

Eliminate Yellow Fever Epidemics (EYE) Strategy on Yellow Fever is a 16-part series that takes you inside the global efforts to ensure that yellow fever does not become the next big global health threat. We interview global experts from fields including immunization, climate change, space science, and the Amazon rainforest to show what goes into ar...

UNICEF made available a complete supply solution for the use of countries to support cervical cancer elimination programmes. The Cervical Cancer Toolkit is an ideal reference point for programme leaders, supply managers, experts, policy makers and donors. Available products in the toolkit support the prevention, diagnosis and treatment pillars of t...