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WhatsApp-ening in India’s measles-rubella vaccine campaign? ☺️☺️☺️

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It’s a Saturday night  and my phone memory is full again. Another 53 messages have come through from Uttarkhand, and then 37 more from Telangana. Scrolling through them is a rainbow of colour and activity with the bright clothes of women health workers blurring as my finger scrolls with the red and white dots of the campaign… Read more →←
On a street in Nigeria, two health workers provide an oral polio vaccine to a child.

Vaccinating the world against a virus: What it will take

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We are living through an unprecedented moment in time. With COVID-19 vaccine procurement and delivery underway, we are in the midst of a global health effort unlike what many of us have seen. But in some ways, we have been here before – with polio. In the early part of the twentieth century, few diseases affected children and… Read more →←
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Broken teeth and shark attacks: 10 period lies

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From curdling milk to shark bites and rotten pickles  – menstruating women are a menace to society… if you believe the myths. For hundreds of years, women and girls have been told ridiculous stories about the dangerous super powers they possess when they menstruate. But having a period is a very normal and healthy part of our… Read more →←

A clean start to life

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Imagine watching your doctor wash their hands with dirty water. Imagine giving birth to a child in a hospital with no running water. Or having no toilet to use when you are in labor. Imagine delivery a baby, without having soap or water to wash your hands. This is a reality for millions of people around the world, where health care is… Read more →←

No one left behind: Linking families to essential social services

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For the last three years, I’ve been working to make Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net (PSNP) both more nutrition sensitive and better connected to health services. PSNP is the main tool to help forward Ethiopia’s Social Protection Policy and Strategy, which provides regular cash or food transfers to over 8 million people in need.… Read more →←
A mother stands with her son beside a new toilet

5 things you might not know on World Toilet Day

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Faeces (“poo”, “number two”, “doodoo”, “shit”) can kill children. Over 800 children under 5 years old die every day from diseases linked to inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene. That is like two Boeing 747’s full of babies and pre-kindergartners crashing without a survivor every single day, 365 days a year. This… Read more →←

5 surprising facts about Childhood Pneumonia

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Here are a few surprising facts for World Pneumonia Day (November 12). Pneumonia is still the single largest cause of death in children under five, responsible for 16 per cent of all deaths. Last year alone, almost 1 million children under five died from pneumonia. The impact of pneumonia is most potent among the poorest and most… Read more →←
In the West Point neighbourhood of Monrovia, Liberia I heard the stories of social mobilizers from the group A-LIFE (Adolescents Leading an Intensive Fight against Ebola).

Witnessing rays of hope in West Africa’s Ebola fight

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In late January, Deputy Executive Director for UNICEF, Geeta Rao Gupta, travelled to Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea to support communities, partners and UNICEF staff as they continue to battle against Ebola. Here, she reflects on what she saw, who she met and the lessons she learned. As a child, my favourite toy was a kaleidoscope. It… Read more →←
n Liberia, UNICEF-supported social mobilizers from the group A-LIFE, learn to record survey data using their mobile phones.

How to hunt a virus: 5 ways polio is helping fight Ebola

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I’m often asked how the largest-ever public health movement – to end polio – has boosted the world’s ability to fight other deadly infectious diseases. When I flew into Sierra Leone on 22 October to help tackle Ebola, I got to see for myself. Polio and Ebola are very different viruses that call for different responses, yet both… Read more →←
A child receives a dose of oral polio vaccine in Pakistan.

Polio eradication in Pakistan gets the selfie treatment

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Towards the end of 2013 and the beginning of 2014, the Pakistani media repeatedly warned that if the country does not curtail the spread of the polio virus, it would be highly likely that travelers will have to obtain a polio vaccination certificate before traveling abroad. It was during this time that India, declaring itself polio free… Read more →←

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