For example, a polio immunization programme in Rakhine reached 300,000 children in camps and villages.
Since 2002, he has been taking time out of his busy acting schedule to help support India's polio immunization programme and has appeared in a series of award-winning television and radio commercials.
Video: watch now Ms. Farrow's visit coincided with the kick-off of a new national immunization campaign in Chad, which is part of a synchronized polio immunization programme currently targeting some 85 million children across West and Central Africa.
The Government of Japan has been one of the major donors through UNICEF of Nigeria's polio eradication and immunization programme since 2000.
UNICEF and WHO have provided support to the Government of Turkmenistan in polio eradication, training on immunization programme management, safe immunization practices, upgrading existing cold chain facilities, and development of a computerized monitoring system for vaccine distribution and utilization.
UNICEF with participation of other UN and international organizations has provided support to the Government of Turkmenistan in polio eradication, training on immunization programme management, safe immunization practices, upgrading existing cold chain facilities, and development of a computerized monitoring system for vaccine distribution and utilization.
Table 1 summarizes the critical events described above, and, in retrospect, their impact on the immunization system.> -wrap-foot> Expandedanded Programme for Immunisation; IPPI, Intensified Pulse Polio Immunisation; KGMOA, Kerala Government Medical Doctors Association UIPIP, Universal Immunization Programme; VPD, Vaccine Preventable Disease.
He noted that without a strong national immunization programme, efforts to eradicate polio from the country would not be successful.
The recommendations include introduction of one inactivated poliomyelitis vaccine (IPV) dose in the regular child immunization programme along with reductions in oral polio vaccine (OPV) doses in supplemental programmes.
Polio immunization UNICEF is helping immunize children as part of Pakistan's national polio immunization days.
West Africa polio campaign: Interview of Dr Chitou, Head of UNICEF Immunization Programme in Niger Niamey, Niger, 27 February 2009 - The Head of UNICEF Immunization programme in Niger speaks about polio in Niger and the strategy behind the coordinated effort to respond to the polio outbreak in West Africa.
