WHO announced the introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine by the Government of Kenya with support from WHO and partners. Kenya is the fourth country to include the vaccine into its national immunization programme in the past three months, after Nicaragua, Sierra Leone and Yemen. WHO said the introduction comes less than two years after the same vaccine was introduced in industrialized countries. Dr Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General, commented, “The rapid roll-out of new-generation pneumococcal vaccine shows how innovation and technology can be harnessed, at affordable prices, to save lives in the developing world. The payback, as measured by reduced childhood mortality, will be enormous.”  http://www.who.int/immunization/newsroom/newsstory_new_gen_pneumo_vaccine_feb2011/en/index.html