Measles

Campaign gathers pace on both sides of front line

Published in Vaccine Weekly, January 14th, 2004

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said its campaign to vaccinate children against measles in both the government and rebel-controlled areas of Cote d'Ivoire had picked up momentum, but more funds were needed to complete the job.

A UNICEF official closely involved in the campaign said nearly 644,000 children had been inoculated against measles since April. Nearly half the inoculations had been carried out since the beginning of November, he added.

However, the official stressed that relief agencies would have to raise a further US$7 million to be able to vaccinate all the 6-7 million children under the age of 15 in the divided West African...

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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2004-01-14)

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