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March 2022

Champion Leadership Summit 2022 Highlights

This year’s Shot@Life’s Champion Leadership Summit brought our most involved vaccine champions together to enhance their knowledge on global childhood immunization progress and prepare them for meetings on Capitol Hill.  

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February 2022

COVAX and the 2022 Investment Opportunity

With the start of third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the time to focus on of COVAX and vaccine equity is now.

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January 2022

Around the World: 3 Countries Where Get a Shot. Give a Shot. Is Saving Lives

After 9 years of Get a Shot. Give a Shot.® program, we celebrate Walgreens and Shot@Life's ongoing mission to vaccinate children around the globe.

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January 2022

4 Vaccine Scientists Who Inspired Us in 2021

Take a look at some of most the influential vaccine scientists who inspired us to advocate for vaccine equity and global immunization in 2021.

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December 2021

8 Times Vaccines Made Pop Culture Cameos in 2021

2021 was a big year for vaccines as they made their presence in both politics and pop culture. Here are a few prominent times that vaccines were featured in popular entertainment.

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December 2021

A Year of Vaccines: Top Lessons Learned from a UN Vaccine Advocacy Campaign

Merriam-Webster's 2021 word of the year is "vaccine," and we couldn’t agree more. 

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December 2021

Shot@Life and United to Beat Malaria laud Gavi’s historic decision to invest in the first-ever malaria vaccine program

Shot@Life and United to Beat Malaria stand together to support the Board of Gavi's decision to invest $155.7 million in the first-ever malaria vaccine program.

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November 2021

Handle with Care: World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week 2021

This week marks the starts of Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week, a time to reflect on the impact of one of the top 10 global public health threats.

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November 2021

Mobilize to Immunize 2021 Recap

This fall, Shot@Life advocates across 50 states came together to mobilize their communities and raise awareness towards the importance of advocating for increased funding for global immunization programs.

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November 2021

The Impact of Climate Change on Global Health Event Recap

Shot@Life, UNA-USA, and United to Beat Malaria supporters listened in on discussions on the negative impact of climate change on global health during COP26 in Scotland.

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November 2021

Champion Spotlight: La Vonne Downey

Dr. La Vonne Downey has been a Shot@Life Champion since 2015. She is the Director of Health Sciences Administration and a Professor of Health Sciences at Roosevelt University. 

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November 2021

How to Get Involved as a New Shot@Life Advocate

Have a look at some of the ways you can get involved with our campaign to become a Shot@Life Champion!

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When we think of climate change, we usually picture melting glaciers or rising sea levels. But there’s another side to the climate crisis that doesn’t get talked about as much—how it’s helping diseases spread, including ones we already have vaccines for.
 
As our planet heats up, vaccine-preventable diseases are surfacing in places they’ve never been before.
 
But as a united front, we have the tools to fix it.
 
Read more in our latest blog. #linkinbio
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative works in the most difficult places around the world to deliver healthcare. But, thanks to the tireless efforts of frontline workers and tools like the oral polio vaccine, the number of children paralyzed has dropped by 99%.
 
Now, let’s stay committed to #EndPolio everywhere.

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SAVE THE DATE!
 
Shot@Life’s annual fall summit will be on the afternoon of September 18th. Join us virtually to get the inside scoop from global health experts, learn about new advocacy tools and tactics, and more.
 
Stay tuned to learn more and register in the coming weeks.
With support from @gavialliance, Mauritania and Senegal have become the first low-income countries to introduce the hexavalent vaccine—a 6-in-1 shot that protects against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, hepatitis B, Hib, and polio.
 
For families in hard-to-reach or underserved areas, combining multiple vaccines into one means fewer clinic visits, longer-lasting protection, and a lower risk of missed doses.
 
This hexavalent vaccine is more than the sum of its parts; it’s a win for children. A win for public health. A win for the future.
Vaccines save lives—and billions.
 
A new study backed by @gavialliance shows that emergency vaccine roll-outs in response to outbreaks of 5 deadly diseases (Ebola, cholera, yellow fever, measles, and meningitis) reduced deaths by nearly 60% over the past 23 years.
 
And it doesn’t stop there—here’s more of the impacts of quick and effective vaccine rollouts:
 
💸 $32 billion in economic benefits
⚡ Stopping wider outbreaks
🌍 60% reduction in cases across 210 outbreaks
 
#VaccinesWork—we cannot take them for granted. Investing in immunization is investing in global health security.
Just last week, WHO and UNICEF released their 2024 estimates of national immunization coverage. This annual report gives a snapshot of how the world is doing in protecting our youngest citizens from disease.
 
The numbers paint a clear picture: business as usual won’t be enough. Check out our latest blog to learn more—good, bad, and ugly. #linkinbio
A moment of celebration: cholera cases in Sudan have dropped by 43%—and by 12% in South Sudan.
 
This substantial decline is the result of a 10-day vaccination campaign that reached a whopping 2.24 million people. That’s a 96% coverage rate in 12 primary hot spots and 5 at-risk localities.
 
But the work doesn’t stop here; the year-long cholera outbreak that has now infected over 87,000 people needs a multi-sectoral approach to be kept at bay.
 
Access to safe water and sanitation is crucial—and this is no easy task in the middle of an ongoing humanitarian crisis. But if we act fast, we can stop this scourge in its tracks.
Feeling overwhelmed by the news lately? So are we.
 
But it’s not all bad—from novel malaria medicine developed to protect babies to the decline in reported bird flu cases, we quietly celebrate the small wins amid the turbulence.
 
Here’s a drop of good news to get your week started. ☀️☕
 
And we want to hear from you—feel free to share any and all happy health news in the comments for us to feature in the coming weeks!
It is near-impossible to maintain a 99.9% reduction in cases. But when it comes to polio, the world has seen a miracle.
 
Whether by boat, bike, or foot, volunteer health workers mobilize every day to bring an end to this deadly disease.
 
Don’t let U.S. funding cuts jeopardize this progress. WE can be the generation to beat polio—but not if we turn our backs.
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