UNICEF: measles vaccination campaign – Somalia

UNICEF and partners said that one hundred days since famine was declared in parts of southern Somalia, they “are doing their utmost to prevent a second and potentially more devastating wave of deaths from disease against a background of conflict.” In Mogadishu, a UNICEF and WHO-supported measles vaccination campaign began this week for 750,000 children between six months and 15 years old. Since the declaration of famine in July, more than 1 million children have been vaccinated against measles in Somalia.