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Frank Sinatra and Edward G. Robinson join the UN fight against polio and malaria

25 April 2018
Podcast Classics

They were two of the 20th Century’s biggest stars of stage and screen, and when it came to the World Health Organization’s campaign to tackle two of the biggest killers of the post-war era, they answered the call.

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Eradication of polio 'once and for all' within reach – UN health agency

24 October 2017
Despite progress towards global eradication of polio, sustained commitment is needed to overcome the final hurdle and stamp out the disease once and for all, the United Nations health agency said today, the World Polio Day.
Health workers vaccinate a child in a medical centre in Al-Radwanieh village, rural Aleppo.
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Good news from Syria: vaccination centres re-open

25 August 2017
General News

Parents in north-west Syria now have access to more than 35 re-opened vaccination centres where they can bring their children for life-saving protection, the UN said on Friday.

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Children at the IDP camp in Kitchanga, North Kivu, DRC.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

News in Brief 14 August (AM)

14 August 2017
News in Brief

7.7 million in DRC face “acute hunger” UN agencies warn

Around 7.7 million people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) face acute hunger, a 30 per cent increase over the last year, two UN agencies warned on Monday.

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Hiba, 12, and her family fled rural Raqqa and are now in a makeshift camp at Ain Issa, 50km north of the Raqqa in Syria.
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News in Brief 9 June 2017 – Geneva

9 June 2017
News in Brief

40,000 Raqqa children in line of fire as Syria fighting intensifies – UNICEF

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A health worker prepares to administer a vaccine to a child at a mobile vaccination unit, in Svay Pak village, an urban poor community in Rossey Keo district, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
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News in brief 26 April (AM)

26 April 2017
News in Brief

UNICEF reaches almost half of world’s children with life-saving vaccines

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UNICEF/Henry Bongyereirwe

UN agencies, partners to launch polio vaccination campaign across Africa

24 March 2017
More than 116 million children are set to be immunized against polio starting tomorrow in one of the largest of its kind synchronized vaccination campaigns across west and central Africa, United Nations agencies today announced.
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UN agency hails new polio vaccination regimen in South-East Asia that curbs impact on global supply

12 January 2017
Amid a global shortage of injectable inactivated polio vaccines (IPV), a new inoculation regimen, employed by governments in the South-East Asian region, involving two fractional vaccine doses – each about a fifth of a full dose – provides the same level of protection against all polioviruses as does one full dose, the United Nations health agency said today.
UN Photo/Mark Garten

'Our partnership is stronger than polio,' says Ban, praising Rotary International's support of UN goals

29 May 2016
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today praised the “invaluable partnership” between Rotary International and the United Nations, telling delegates gathered in Seoul, Korea, for the organization's annual international conference that Rotarians had been instrumental in working with the UN to defeat polio.
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World’s largest, fastest vaccine rollout targets polio’s ‘final strongholds’ – UN initiative

14 April 2016
In a massive undertaking aimed at stamping out polio once and for all – dubbed ‘the switch’ – a United Nations-backed eradication initiative will next week begin the largest and fastest globally coordinated rollout of a vaccine into routine immunization programmes in history.