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Dr. Halim Girade Article shared by Andréia Peres Dear colleagues, My name is Andréia Peres and I am working as a consultant in UNICEF Brazil since 2002. I am also a journalist, with a column in Veja on-line, one of the most important magazines in Latin America. In my latest column, I talk about Halim Antonio Girade, former officer of UNICEF Brazil. As a UNICEF member he helped create the most famous public health program: The column is in Portuguese and must be translated. Best regards, Andréia Click here for the English version of the article Click here for the original Portuguese 

For the original article in Portugese language, click here Andréia Peres * has been working as a consultant in UNICEF Brazil since 2002. Here she also talks about Jim Grant, Agop Kayayan and other colleagues Between 1980 and 1990, Jim Grant (1922-1995), the legendary executive director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), is estimated to have saved the lives of 25 million children. Thanks to his mobilization, there was a large investment of resources for immunization and, in 10 years, global vaccination rates for the six main diseases that killed the most children at that time went from 20% to 80%. The commitment was so great that for the first time in the history of humanity, a war stopped so that children could be vaccinated.