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WHO and partners launch emergency vaccination campaign to help contain world’s largest measles outbreak

With the world’s largest and fastest-moving measles epidemic…
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Benediction, suffering from Cholera, & his mother (GOMA), Photo: WHO/Savage S.

​Ebola, cholera and measles: Triple threats to the poorest communities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Kasika is one of the poorest neighbourhoods in Goma, the largest…
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Health Week in Sofala

More than 435.000 children in Sofala province will be protected against measles, polio and rubella during Health Week in Mozambique

Beira, 6 May 2019 - Every year the Ministry of Health of…
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Une vaccinatrice donnant le vaccin oral polio bivalent à un enfant - dans la zone de santé de Kasa-vubu, à Kinshasa. OMS/Eugene Kabambi

Pour lutter contre la résurgence des cas de polio dérivée d'une souche vaccinale (PVDVc2), la RDC a lancé les Journées nationales de vaccination visant 19,466, 557 millions d'enfants de 0 à 59 mois. Une campagne couplée à celle de la rougeole.

KINSHASA, 18 AVRIL 2019. En ce mois d’avril 2019, le Ministère de la…
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In Madagascar, mothers show grit to protect their children as government, partners battle measles epidemic

Madera is not a trained health worker but she is waging her own…
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Measles and rubella vaccination campaign in Brazzaville

The Republic of Congo starts vaccinating 2.2 million children against Measles and Rubella

BRAZZAVILLE - March 5 - 2019. Under the high patronage of the…
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The response is taking place in some of the most remote areas in Sierra Leone

Measles outbreak confirmed in northern Sierra Leone

Health sector response mounted, including preparations for targeted …
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ED NPHCDA Dr Faisal Shuaib vaccinating the child of the Governor of Kaduna state while the Governor’s wife Hajiya Ummi El Rufai looks on.

As Nigerian government Flags-off 2017/2018 Measles Vaccination Campaign, Kaduna state Governor's children get vaccinated against measles disease.

Kaduna, 08 November 2017 – In a ceremony attended by stakeholders in…
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A child after geting Measles vaccination at Aroreys woreda of Ethiopia Somali regio

Integrated Measles and EOS campaign protects 2.6 million children in Ethiopia’s Somali Region

Measles is a highly infectious vaccine-preventable disease. While…
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