Thank you to everyone who participated in World Immunization Week!
Whether you shared an article, watched a video, or encouraged others to get vaccinated, you helped remind the world of the importance of vaccines. Here’s some content highlights from Rotary and our immunization partners:
- Rotary Live Conversation with Ade Adepitan
- Rotary Live Conversation with Public Health Experts
- Health ministers renew urgent call to end polio in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
- Pakistan: the women heroes of polio eradication
- An impassioned dislike for polio
- This Polio Survivor is Using Sport to Combat Vaccine Hesitancy in Nigeria
- Vaccinations save lives: A conversation with global health experts
- A WHO director on the future of polio eradication
From hope to history: How we defeated polio in the Western Pacific
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the World Health Organization’s certification of the Western Pacific Region as polio-free. To commemorate this anniversary, RI invited Dr. Shigeru Omi, who led the WHO’s polio eradication efforts in the region from start to finish, to reflect on the story behind that victory.
To read the story, click here.
A hidden ‘army’ is on the frontlines of immunization in Pakistan
Community health workers, many of them volunteers, play increasingly important roles in health care systems around the globe. And they’re essential to Rotary’s health initiatives — especially the fight against polio and other diseases. Israr Ul Haq, social and behavioral change specialist for UNICEF, recently talked about the demands of finding, training, and managing nearly half a million community health workers in Pakistan.