{"id":64916,"date":"2025-04-27T05:12:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T05:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=64916"},"modified":"2025-04-27T05:12:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T05:12:02","slug":"media-champions-demand-action-on-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/27\/media-champions-demand-action-on-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Champions Demand Action on Vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Oso Abidemi\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As nations mark the 2025 World Immunization Week, media practitioners across southern Nigeria have issued a resounding call for governments to urgently invest in vaccines and protect citizens from preventable diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a two-day multi-zonal dialogue organized by UNICEF in Enugu, journalists from twelve states pledged to intensify monitoring of immunization efforts, particularly in rural areas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The event spotlighted this year&#8217;s campaign theme: &#8220;Immunization for All is Humanly Possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>UNICEF\u2019s Chief of Field Office in Enugu, Mrs Juliet Chiluwe, stressed that vaccines remain one of humanity\u2019s greatest victories, saving over 154 million lives in the past fifty years.<\/p>\n<p>She warned that rising vaccine-preventable diseases stem largely from government complacency and called for renewed political commitment and funding for immunization programs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Vaccines have proven that fewer diseases and more saved lives are achievable when we invest,&#8221; Chiluwe said. &#8220;It is time to show the world that immunization for all is truly possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Director General of the Broadcasting Corporation of Abia State, Francis Nwubani, echoed the appeal, urging journalists to use their platforms to boost vaccination campaigns and reduce child mortality.<\/p>\n<p>The dialogue ended with strong resolutions for continuous media engagement to drive home the message that no life should be lost to diseases that vaccines can prevent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oso Abidemi\u00a0 As nations mark the 2025 World Immunization Week, media practitioners across southern Nigeria have issued a resounding call for governments to urgently invest in vaccines and protect citizens from preventable diseases. Speaking during a two-day multi-zonal dialogue organized by UNICEF in Enugu, journalists from twelve states pledged to intensify monitoring of immunization [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":64917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-64916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64918,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64916\/revisions\/64918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}