"Somali Children to Benefit From Kenyan Anti-Measles Campaign"
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"Somali Children to Benefit From Kenyan
Anti-Measles Campaign" Agence France Presse (www.afp.com/english/home)
(06/13/02)
UNICEF announced Thursday that Somali children
living near the Kenyan border will benefit from an upcoming measles immunization
effort in Kenya. "We will establish immunization centers at the Kenya-Somali
border and at Dadaab, Kakuma, and other refugee camps in northern Kenya," said
UNICEF's country director for Kenya, Nicholas Alipui. Alipui explained that
health workers will cross the border to vaccinate children in peaceful parts of
Somalia against measles. Immunization stations will also be set up at livestock
watering points in northern and eastern parts of Kenya to reach children living
in herder communities.
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