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Accra, April 20th
GNA – UNICEF will launch a new global campaign on April 24 to highlight
the power and safety of vaccines among parents and wider users of social media.
Countryside
in conjunction with World Immunization Week from 24 to 30 April
spread the message that together, communities, including parents, can protect
everyone through the vaccines.
A declaration
published in Accra by UNICEF Ghana, with a copy to the Ghana News Agency, said that
campaign would use social media to educate people, especially parents,
vaccines to protect their children.
the
The #VaccinesWork campaign has long been used to bring together immunization
defenders online.
The campaign is
the opportunity to show the world that social media could be a powerful force
for change and provide parents with reliable information about vaccines.
He stated that
this year, UNICEF partners with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,
the World Health Organization (WHO) and Gavi, the Alliance for Immunization
encourage even more reach.
He said the
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation would donate USD 1 to UNICEF for each
Like or share social media posts using the #VaccinesWork hashtag in April,
up to $ 1 million for all children to receive life-saving vaccines
necessary.
The statement
These vaccines save up to 3 million lives a year, protecting children from
potentially fatal and highly infectious diseases such as measles, pneumonia,
cholera and diphtheria.
"With vaccines, fewer people have died from
Measles between 2000 and 2017 and polio is about to be eradicated.
In Ghana,
deaths due to vaccine-preventable diseases have decreased and in some cases
eliminated.
Since 2008, Ghana has not reported any cases.
Confirmed case of wild polio and no deaths have been recorded because of measles
since 2003.
Vaccines are
one of the most profitable health tools ever invented – every dollar spent
on child immunization brings up to 44 USD in profits, "he said.
"We want it
Awareness that #VaccinesWork must become viral, "said Robin Nandy, Chief of the UNICEF Secretariat
vaccination. "Vaccines are safe and save lives."
He said the
campaign inscribed as part of a global celebration of a week on the theme "Protected
Together: Vaccines Work ", to honor the heroes of vaccination – from parents and
members of the community to health workers and innovators.
"More children
vaccines are more effective than ever, "said Violaine
Mitchell, Acting Director of Vaccine Distribution at Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation.
"We are
pleased to work with UNICEF and all global and national partners around
the world that works tirelessly to ensure all children, especially those
in the poorest countries of the world, can be protected from deadly threats
infectious diseases, "he added.
The statement
Despite the benefits of vaccines, about 1.5 million children died
preventable diseases by vaccination in 2017.
While that is
often due to lack of access to vaccines, in some countries families are
delay or refuse to vaccinate their children because of their complacency or
skepticism about vaccines, he said.
This has
epidemics, including an alarming outbreak of measles,
especially in high-income countries.
Uncertainty
on vaccines on digital and social media platforms is one of the factors
drive this trend.
That's why the
The centerpiece of this UNICEF campaign is a 60-second animated film entitled "Dangers".
which, with illustrated animations for publications on social networks and posters,
based on the relatable insight that children, by their very nature, are few
the daredevils who constantly put themselves in danger.
The video is
available in Arabic, Chinese, French, Hindi, Russian, Spanish and Tagalog, it
explains that even though parents can not prevent all the dangers that their children encounter
themselves, they can use vaccination to help prevent the dangers badociated with
in their children.
In addition,
UNICEF experts will answer questions on immunization, including
vaccines work, how they are tested, why children should receive vaccines, like
as well as the risks of not vaccinating children in a timely manner.
GNA
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