CAR: MSF Launches Catch-Up Vaccination Campaign

Central African Republic (CAR): Doctors Without Borders launches an unprecedented catch-up vaccination campaign.

Only 13% of one year olds are fully immunized.
In the city of Berbérati and its surroundings:
16 medical teams, 370 people, 43 sites, targeting 8 diseases

Children under the age of five are vaccinated against the most common childhood diseases:
diphtheria
tetanus
whooping cough
hepatitis B
pneumococcus
measles
haemophilus influenzae type B
polio

the children receive one oral vaccine
and up to 3 injections

Over 73,000 children have already been vaccinated across the country.

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