Measles

UNICEF urges Angola to spend on health at launch of campaign

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, May 13th, 2003

As Angola launched a nationwide measles vaccination campaign in April to immunize 7 million children within a month, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) urged the government to support the nascent peace process with increased funds for health and education and the international community to join in helping the war-ruined country.

"We're asking the government to continue putting money where the children are," UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy said in Luanda, the Angolan capital, at the launching of the biggest health campaign in the country's history. "Give Angola a stable future by protecting her children. This will be the real peace dividend."

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Source: TB and Outbreaks Week (2003-05-13)

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