A considerable gap remains in reaching the final 20 percent--the children who are the hardest to reach, and the ones currently not served by existing immunization programs.

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So, this father’s day, I’m urging fellow fathers around the world to get as involved in their children’s health as they are when their children are ill. Fathers everywhere want the best for their kids and, as I saw in Ghana, pour their souls out when their children are gravely ill. But all too often they are missing from the vaccination clinic, one of the key steps to preventing serious illnesses like the pneumonia that took Isiah.

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Dying of any kind of cancer anywhere in the world is sad, but this case is particularly heart-rending because cervical cancer is so easily preventable.

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Sunita Kumari was struggling to get her message across. Working as an auxiliary nurse midwife in Gumla District, Jharkhand, India, she kept trying to mobilize the women of Toto, a village of 941 houses, to participate in Village Health and Nutrition Days. Despite her best efforts, she had little success.

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