The Japanese government has pledged P190 million to strengthen the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund’s (Unicef) support for the Philippines’ COVID-19 immunization response.
“The costs of the pandemic for children are immediate and, if unaddressed, may persist throughout their lives. The availability and equitable distribution of vaccines is critical for putting an end to this global pandemic,” Unicef representative Oyunsaikhan Dendevnorov said in a statement.
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, immunization in the Philippines has been declining.
In the 2017 Philippine National Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS), the immunization coverage for 1- to 2-year-ol…
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