Each round requires vaccinators to get the polio drops into the mouths of 50 million children. |
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Dr. Dawood remembers one instance when a community leader refused to allow the vaccinators access to his area. |
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Most were around Karachi and Peshawar, where last year's killings of the vaccinators took place and where resistance to vaccines is highest. |
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In recent months, polio vaccinators have been kidnapped and vaccines stolen. |
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As I am now almost six years old, the vaccinators have told my mother that I am out of risk. |
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Funds of the Central Emergency Response Fund bridged the gap, and it was possible to train vaccinators and recorders for the campaign. |
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Today, Egypt is no longer a reservoir for the virus, thanks to years of hard work by tens of thousands of health workers and vaccinators. |
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It is much easier for vaccinators to reach children if they know that the campaigns are happening and expect us to come. |
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The population was so wary of vaccines that riots broke out in Montreal, and the vaccinators came under attack. |
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During the first two days of the campaign vaccinators conducted immunization in schools to maximize their outreach to children. |
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Abduction of health workers by armed groups, including vaccinators and support staff, was by far the most reported violation. |
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Once households are reached, many vaccinators will have to alleviate parents' concerns regarding the safety of the polio vaccine. |
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They ensure health coverage and the vaccination of all animals in their zone and the supply of veterinary products for the communal vaccinators. |
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Refresher training courses will be provided to VHT members, community vaccinators and TBAs, as well as professional healthcare staff. |
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If a vaccine works, then the vaccinators might conceivably set up what's known as ring vaccinations around Ebola hot spots. |
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Tells about visiting towns where vaccinations had been performed and questioning vaccinators to be sure they knew what they were doing. |
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That enraged some Taliban factions in Pakistan, which outlawed vaccination in their areas and threatened vaccinators. |
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In antipolio drives, for example, the freezers, generators and fuel needed to make ice for the shoulder bags of vaccinators can cost more than the vaccine. |
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Film about polio vaccinators in Pakistan who pursue their mission in face of cynicism screened at launch of World Immunisation Week. |
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The team of cullers and vaccinators are under chemo-prophylactic cover. |
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Among these will be public health workers at federal, provincial, territorial and local levels who will be organized to form the core of instructors to rapidly train smallpox vaccinators at the site of a smallpox outbreak. |
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They were counting numbers of mobilizers and vaccinators needed, distances to be travelled, quantities of syringes, vaccines and cotton balls, and, of course, the number of children to be reached. |
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To help reassure families, vaccinators have been trained on the importance of re-assuring parents that polio vaccination is safe and the only way to protect their children from life-long disability caused by the poliovirus. |
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In Côte d'Ivoire alone, a country in the throes of a major political crisis, 27,000 vaccinators fanned out to reach more than five million children under five years of age in the most recent round of the polio campaign. |
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Then, they were aligned across the four governorates to accompany the vaccinators. |
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Seek collaboration from health professionals in the public and private sectors, including doctors, nurses and vaccinators, NIDs volunteers, other members of partner organizations. |
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Teams of vaccinators are permanently stationed at the crossing to make sure that all children under the age of six travelling in either direction are vaccinated. |
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In British India a program was launched to propagate smallpox vaccination, through Indian vaccinators, under the supervision of European officials. |
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