Pakistan, 2011. A health worker (right) marks the finger of a toddler with indelible ink, indicating she has received a dose of polio vaccine, in a camp for people displaced by flooding, in the town of Bin Qasim, in Sindh Province. The toddler is surrounded by her family.
© UNICEF/NYHQ2011-0187/Asad Zaidi
Congo, 2010. A girl receives a dose of oral polio vaccine at the Petits Princes de St-Laurent Benwol Primary School in the coastal city of Pointe-Noire, the epicentre of the country’s polio outbreak.
© UNICEF/NYHQ2010-2765/Olivier Asselin
A health worker vaccinates a toddler against measles, at the Kopeta 'Puskesmas' (community health centre) in the north-eastern port town of Maumere in Sikka District, on Flores Island in East Nusa Tenggara Province. The area has experienced repeated outbreaks of the disease, which is a principal cause of blindness in children and can lead to pneumonia, encephalitis and other fatal illnesses. More than 3,000 children are being vaccinated at 38 health centres in Sikka District as part of a national measles immunisation campaign to vaccinate at least 90 per cent of the country's children by the end of 2007. UNICEF is providing vaccines as well as vitamin A supplements for children under five, to boost their immune systems.
© UNICEF/NYHQ2006-1800/Josh Estey
UNICEF has procured 18 million doses of oral polio vaccine. In this photo (from Congo in 2010), vaccine vials are readied for distribution to vaccination teams at the Mahouata Health Centre in the coastal city of Pointe-Noire, the epicentre of the country’s polio outbreak. Ensuring immunity requires at least three rounds of immunisations, one round for each of the three necessary vaccine doses.
© UNICEF/NYHQ2010-2763/Olivier Asselin
A health worker prepares to administer a vaccine against tetanus to a baby girl, who is being held by her mother, at a UNICEF-supported health centre for women and children in Pobé City, Plateau Department.
© UNICEF/NYHQ2006-2851/Julie Pudlowski
Côte d'Ivoire, 2011. On 26 April, a health worker administers a measles vaccine to a child at the Port Bouet General Hospital in the city of Abidjan. Routine vaccination restarted today after nearly a month of cessation due to post-election violence.
© UNICEF/NYHQ2011-0650/Olivier Asselin
Haiti, 2010. A girl, held by her father, cries as a health worker vaccinates her, at Sylvio Cator Stadium in the centre of Port-au-Prince, the capital. The stadium is serving as a temporary settlement area for some 4,000 people who have been displaced by the earthquake and is the site of the initial pilot vaccination round, carried out by the Ministry of Health and members of the Cuban Medical Brigade.
© UNICEF/NYHQ2010-0142/Shehzad Noorani
Congo, 2010. A vaccination team member marks a child’s hand with ink, indicating the child has been immunised against polio, in Djambala Village, Plateaux Department.
© UNICEF/NYHQ2010-2793/Olivier Asselin
Congo, 2010. A boy receives a dose of oral polio vaccine at the Trois Martyrs Primary School in the coastal city of Pointe-Noire, the epicentre of the country’s polio outbreak
© UNICEF/NYHQ2010-2769/Olivier Asselin
