Boston, MA 09/10/2014 (wallstreetpr) – Walgreen Company (NYSE:WAG) is working with the United Nations Foundation to initiate a campaign urging people in the developing countries to get their children vaccinated.
Walgreen’s Donations
Walgreen Company (NYSE:WAG) announced the launch of the campaign, called “Get a Shot. Give a Shot®” yesterday. It is a second-year collaboration between the company and the United Nations Foundation. The campaign aims to encourage protecting children growing in the developing countries from deadly diseases, including polio, diarrhea, pneumonia and measles. The movement involves educating, connecting and empowering Americans to ensure protection of their children against vaccine-preventable diseases.
Walgreen Company (NYSE:WAG) has taken up that from Sept 9 through Oct 13, it will contribute the value of a life-saving vaccine for every flu shot or any immunization injected at its pharmacies or Healthcare Clinic. The company has named select Duane Reade pharmacy and some of its own in New York for the purpose. It seeks to donate the amount through the campaign Shot@Life.
Extended Efforts
Apart from this, as Businesswire reports in an article, Walgreen has undertaken to offer the value of a vaccine for all non-flu, CDC-recommended vaccination it will administer as part of the campaign. This endeavor will begin from Oct 13 and targets administering 6 million vaccines to children. The figure last year that Walgreen had proposed was 3 million. The increase in the figure attributes credit to Walgreen Company (NYSE:WAG) customers.
Walgreen’s collaboration with the UN Foundation underlines the company’s national and international endeavor to offer more and easy access to health care services. In the U.S., Walgreen Company (NYSE:WAG) has been participating in the program for five consecutive years, including the present one. The company has conducted all the previous years’, as well as this year’s campaign together with the U.S. Department of Health and human Services. Apart from this, Walgreen had also collaborated with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization previously.
