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November 8, 2002
INTERNATIONAL IMMUNIZATION NEWS
"UNICEF Measles Campaign Reaches Over 13 Million Kenyan Children" Xinhua News Agency (202.84.17.11/en/main.htm) (11/06/02)
According to the UNICEF Kenyan country office, the recent UNICEF-led effort to immunize young people against measles reached 93.4 percent of the targeted children in the country. The campaign provided measles vaccination for 13.4 million children and was largest of its kind ever to take place in Africa. In addition to measles vaccine, the effort provided polio immunization in 14 districts and maternal tetanus vaccination in three districts.
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