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Winnie Cirino
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Journalist, Freelance
Juba, South Sudan
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Biography
Winnie Cirino is a freelance journalist with Voice of America’s South Sudan in Focus program. She also reports for Gavi, the vaccine alliance, aiming to create more awareness of vaccines' importance. She graduated from the University of Juba with a Bachelor of Science in Telecommunications Engineering in August 2018. Winnie has been a news anchor at the state-owned South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation (SSBC) Television for the past eight years. She also worked as a reporter, program presenter, and news anchor at the Juba-based Radio Bakhita, Citizen TV, and Equator Broadcasting Corporation (EBC) She is an alumna of the Study of United States Institute (SUSI) Program, 2012
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By Winnie Cirino| Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance@ About 12 kilometres from the town of Magwi in Eastern Equatoria State, South Sudan, lies Omeo Payam, a rural settlement of scattered, grass-thatched homes. At the heart of the payam – South Sudan’s second-lowest administrative unit – tucked away inside the local Primary Health Unit (PHU), there lies a solar-powered vaccine fridge. This fridge is one of many endpoints in South Sudan’s branching vaccine cold chain.
By Winnie Cirino| Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance@ Public health experts in South Sudan say that the malaria vaccine has seen enthusiastic uptake since its introduction into the national immunisation schedule in mid-July this year. John Elia, the deputy head for Expanded Programme for Immunization (EPI) activities at Al Sabbah Children’s Hospital, the country’s only dedicated paediatric hospital, shares encouraging statistics about the vaccine’s early reception.
By Winnie Cirino| Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance@ “Almost 70% of the patients we treat in the hospital nowadays are mainly malaria victims,” says Dr Jak Gatluak, head of Accident and Emergency at Juba Teaching Hospital in South Sudan. “If we have ten cases [to see], you will find like seven to eight cases are malaria.”South Sudan has one of the highest malaria incidences in the world, recording an estimated 7,680 cases and 18 deaths each day, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
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