Vaccines: Handled with Care

"Safety is the overriding concern in the long process of getting vaccines from manufacturers to the 100 million infants across the globe who need them for protection against deadly childhood diseases."

Published by UNICEF in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), this colourfully illustrated brochure is designed for use by developing country communities to explain the many steps undertaken by UNICEF, WHO and their partners to ensure reliable supplies of quality vaccines.

"Immunization reaches more children than any other health intervention. And where immunization goes, other life-saving health services follow. This is especially true for the children born in the world’s poorest countries. Immunization is the primary – sometimes the only – path to realize their ‘right to health’. Immunization is often the first health service for children to be restored after war – and perhaps the only health intervention that has inspired ceasefires."