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Gaza: Polio campaign reaches 94,000 children in besieged north

·November 4, 2024·2 min read

Richard Peeperkorn of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the Occupied Palestinian Territory said the target was to reach all children in the north with the second and final dose. “We covered many more children than we expected, but we missed some,” he said during a briefing via videolink for...

Middle East crisis: Gaza polio vaccine campaign under fire

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·November 3, 2024·6 min read

Gaza: Health teams under attack The northern Gaza polio vaccine campaign began Saturday and is scheduled to continue through Monday, with UN agencies and partners fanning out across the ravaged north during agreed upon humanitarian pauses to ensure safety for civilians and aid workers. The goal is to reach more...

Gaza: Final phase of polio vaccine campaign reaches ravaged north

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·November 2, 2024·2 min read

“To overcome challenges posed by the volatile security situation and constant population movement, robust micro plans have been developed to ensure the campaign is responsive to the significant population shifts and displacement in the north following the first round in September,” the UN agencies for health, WHO, and for children,...

Gaza: Polio could spread unless vaccines reach war-torn north

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·October 24, 2024·4 min read

“It is imperative to stop the polio outbreak in Gaza before more children are paralysed and the virus spreads,” said Louise Wateridge, spokesperson for the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA. “The vaccination campaign must be facilitated in the north through the implementation of humanitarian pauses.” To interrupt transmission, at...

Gaza: Israeli strikes delay polio vaccine campaign in the north

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·October 23, 2024·3 min read

“Humanitarian pauses are essential for its success, allowing partners to deliver vaccination supplies to health facilities, families to safely access vaccination sites, and mobile teams of health workers to reach children in their communities,” the UN Health agency said on the eve of World Polio Day, marked annually on 24...

Gaza: School set for polio vaccine campaign hit in deadly strike, says UNRWA

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·October 14, 2024·2 min read

“Throughout the night, I spoke to a colleague sheltering in the compound who told me, ‘We miraculously survived, the fire caught everywhere even the tent where we were sleeping burnt. The scene is terrifying,’” said Louise Wateridge, spokesperson for the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA. Images shared by UNRWA...

Gaza: WHO chief hails ‘massive success’ of polio campaign amid tragic reality

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·September 15, 2024·3 min read

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tweeted that it had been “a massive success amidst a tragic daily reality of life” for more than two million Gazans who have been caught up in the intense fighting since last October’s terror attacks by Hamas unleashed the war in Gaza. In three phases...

Gaza: 160,000 more children vaccinated against polio in southern Gaza

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·September 6, 2024·2 min read

UN agencies and partners in the Strip will continue to vaccinate “as many Gazan children as possible” during the agreed humanitarian pauses, before moving to the north of the war-shattered enclave, UNRWA added. Thousands of families visited health centers to get their doses from UN medical teams, UNRWA reported. In...

Gaza: Polio vaccination campaign moves to southern areas

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·September 6, 2024·2 min read

The campaign moved to southern areas of the Gaza Strip following the successful completion of the first phase in the centre of the enclave, thanks largely to pauses in the fighting. UNRWA along with partners provided the first dose of polio vaccine to children under 10 years old at the...

Gaza: UN humanitarians ahead of polio vaccination target

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·September 3, 2024·2 min read

“We think that we will need another day tomorrow to actually wrap-up the central zone completely,” said Dr. Rik Peeperkorn, WHO Representative for the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). Speaking from Gaza, he explained that day three of the campaign was continuing during the eight-hour daily pauses agreed by the Israeli...

Stories from the UN Archive: Hollywood greats campaign against malaria and polio

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·December 28, 2023·1 min read

Following the International Day of Epidemic Preparedness, marked annually on 27 December, we took a look at how two renowned actors helped the UN health agency in 1959. A singing legend, Mr. Sinatra lent his golden voice to WHO for a UN Radio story, telling the tale of two victims of...

World News in Brief: Peace day, high seas treaty, Palestinian displacement rises, polio in Ukraine

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·September 21, 2023·3 min read

“People and our planet are in crisis”, the UN chief said, highlighting how conflicts continue to drive the vulnerable from their homes, while heatwaves and floods claim lives and division prevails. ‘Leave no one behind’ This year’s Peace Day coincides with the halfway point on the road to the Sustainable...