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Mozambique to vaccinate 12 million children against measles and rubella
12:30 CAT | 09 Apr 2018
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The Mozambican Ministry of Health today launched a measles and rubella vaccination campaign aimed at reaching about 12 million children, the agency said in a statement.
The first phase of vaccination runs until the 15th and will cover the provinces of Niassa, Cabo Delgado and Nampula in the north of the country and Zambezia in the centre.
The second phase will take place between 21st and 25th in Tete, Manica and Sofala in the centre of the country and Inhambane, Gaza and Maputo in the south.
Ministry figures indicate that 90,000 cases of measles have been reported in the last seven years in Mozambique, half of them in children over two years of age.
The disease remains among the leading causes of mortality preventable by vaccination and “occurs in epidemics of worrying magnitude”, the statement said.
Source: Lusa
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