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Navigating Global Childhood Vaccination Challenges Amidst COVID-19
The Shot at Life 2023 summit, convened by the UN Foundation, brought together public health professionals focused on immunization....

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Understanding, Addressing Challenges to Ensuring Everyone Fully Benefits from Vaccines
In order to build a healthier world through immunization, we must first understand the barriers that stand in our way...

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To Build Back Immunity, Health Workforce Advocates Must Lead the Way
Nobody understands and lives this more than the nurses, midwives, pharmacists, community health workers, doctors and other health workers...

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Adolescent Autonomy, Participation, and Advocacy Critical for Increasing HPV Vaccine Uptake
Adolescents have the drive, the energy, and the determination to change the world. They must be included in HPV vaccination campaigns.

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The Nursing Now Challenge & Sabin Vaccine Institute Announce Immunization Advocacy Champions Winners
The Nursing Now Challenge Immunization Advocacy Champion winners have been announced.

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Opinion: Global immunization efforts need a new BRAVE and BOLD approach
An auxiliary nurse midwife (center) and an accredited social health activist counsel the grandmother of an 18-month-old boy, in Mumbai, India. UNCIEF

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Sabin Statement on Polio Agenda Item at WHO Executive Board Meeting
The following statement was prepared by the Sabin Vaccine Institute in response to Agenda Item 13 on Poliomyelitis eradication discussed at the 152nd

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Immunization Advocacy Champions Photo Essay: Enabling Immunization Locally and Globally
In 2023, Sabin’s Immunization Advocates program is partnering with the Nursing Now Challenge to support early-career nurses and midwives.

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The Global Health Reporting Initiative: Supporting Journalists to Report Accurately on Immunization and Vaccines
The second iteration of the Global Health Reporting Initiative launched in October 2022, with journalist cohorts in Africa and the Caribbean.

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Vaccines: a course, a journey, and an enriching experience
"I learned... how vaccination has become one of the most life-saving public health measures in the world." - Mariana Souquett, journalist

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Boosting Vaccination by Investing in Nurses
Three Sabin-Nursing Now Challenge Immunization Advocacy Champions attended the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) in Doha, Qatar, October 4-6.

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77th UNGA Reflections: Sabin delegation attends high-level events to urge leaders to invest in communities and vaccine professionals to boost equity and acceptance
Sabin Vaccine Institute and our partners around the world joined leaders at the 77th U.N. General Assembly to advance key global health issues.

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Statement by Sabin Vice President Stacey Knobler on Alarming New WHO/UNICEF Data on Global Immunization Coverage
Statement in response to alarming new data from WHO and UNICEF 2022 estimates of national immunization coverage

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InfoVacina Trainee, a program to enhance reporting on immunization and vaccines for early-career journalists, launches in Brazil
Agência Bori brings together early-career journalists, immunization experts & experienced journalists on health reporting who took part in InfoVacina

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How is storytelling helping health workers vaccinate people in rural Uganda?
Elevating the voices of rural health workers in Uganda and East Africa is enabling opportunities for advocacy

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Monthly Roundup: Addressing Vaccine Equity and Acceptance at the World Health Assembly, Immunization Advocates Strengthening Health Systems
Learn more about our recent activities.

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Monthly Roundup: Reflecting on World Immunization Week, Community Conversations on Vaccines, Looking to Global Health Leaders in Upcoming Events
Policymakers and global health program leaders must take action to enact systemic change.

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Focusing on Community-Based Solutions to Reverse Routine Immunization Backslide
As major global gatherings convene, we must enact systemic change to address the backslide in routine immunization.

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Monthly Roundup: Celebrating Health Workers and Spotlighting Global Immunization Efforts
This month, global health leaders are pausing to recognize those at the forefront of delivering vaccines and other essential health services.

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Frontline health workers go a long way vaccinating people along the Costa Rica-Nicaragua border: A journalist reports
Health journalist Irene Rodríguez Salas shares her experiences investigating the challenges of COVID-19 vaccination and routine immunization.

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Monthly Roundup: Immunization Advocates in the Media, Global Vaccination Stakeholders Gather for Inaugural VARN2022 Conference
Learn about Immunization Advocates' partners recent journalism efforts, events featuring health workers, and upcoming events and opportunities.

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Monthly Roundup: Deepening Vaccine Acceptance Knowledge, Influence Among Journalists, Health Workers, Researchers
Immunization Advocates supports health workers and media professionals with educational resources to help them report accurately on immunization.

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To End the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2022, Learn & Act to Reverse 2021 Vaccine Inequities
The world must invest in our health workforce and immunization professionals now to ensure rapid and effective public health response.

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Pursuing Collaboration To Further Vaccine Acceptance, Immunization Advocates New Activities
Stay up to date with Sabin's Immunization Advocates November 2021 initiatives to promote vaccine equity and acceptance.
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Boosting Vaccine Confidence Through Storytelling, Immunization Advocates New Activities
Stay up to date with Sabin's Immunization Advocates October 2021 initiatives to promote vaccine equity and acceptance.

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Vaccine Equity, Acceptance at Center of Immunization Advocates New Activities
Stay up to date with Sabin's Immunization Advocates September 2021 initiatives to promote vaccine equity and acceptance.

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Immunization Advocates Explores COVID-19 Vaccine Equity, Acceptance in Season 2 of ‘Community Conversations on Vaccines’
Immunization Advocates is launching season 2 of Community Conversations on Vaccines to provide further insight into immunization in LMICs.

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The Nursing Now Challenge & Sabin Vaccine Institute Announce Winners of Storytelling Challenge
The Nursing Now Challenge Global Solutions Initiative elevates the voices and perspectives of nurses and midwives.

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Community Conversations on Vaccines: Catching up with Our Season 1 Guests
We recently caught up with two of our season one podcast guests to learn what challenges their communities continue to face.

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Voices for Vaccines: Sharing the Experiences of Nurses & Midwives to Promote Vaccine Equity & Acceptance
Sabin and the Nursing Now Challenge seek to elevate nursing and midwifery leadership in advocating for equity and acceptance.

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Covering COVID-19 in Guyana’s ‘Deep South’
Guyanese journalist Vishani Ragobeer shares her experience covering indigenous communities and COVID-19.

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Immunization Advocates Launches Podcast to Explore Vaccines in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Immunization Advocates is launching a new podcast as a tool for immunization advocates around the world to improve vaccine acceptance and demand.

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Journalists From Georgia, Moldova Utilize Workshop to Bolster Reporting on Vaccines, Immunization
Journalists from Georgia and Moldova reflect on the impact of Thomson Reuters Foundation workshop on their reporting on vaccines and immunization.

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Delivering Trust in Vaccines on Immunization’s Front Lines
The International Pediatric Association has partnered with Sabin Vaccine Institute to pilot the IPA Vaccine Trust Project.

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More Than 50 Journalists Across Brazil Join COVID-19 Vaccine Workshop
A WhatsApp group chat resulted in the training of dozens of journalists in Brazil in hopes of bringing a quicker end to the pandemic's horrific toll.

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Discover Immunization Advocates’ Resources To Help Address Vaccine, Immunization Misinformation
This week we have launched our new Resource Hubs for health workers and for journalists to assist in delivering trusted information.