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Graca Machel, a former rebel and now assistant overseer of an ambitious immunization project in Mozambique, says that efforts to vaccinate children there are progressing. Backed by a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Seattle-based Program for Appropriate Technology in Health, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) program seeks to reach children in the poorest parts of the world with basic vaccines. Since the program began, immunization rates have risen by 40 percent in northern Mozambique, reaching about 900,000 children, Machel said.

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