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Neonatal tetanus.

Uganda free of maternal and neonatal tetanus, UNICEF reports

14 July 2011
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has lauded the efforts of Uganda, which has become the 20th country since 2000 to have eliminated maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT).

UN-backed measles vaccination drive targets India’s highest risk children

9 November 2010
The next stage of a measles immunization drive supported by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) began today in India, aiming to reach 134 million children and prevent an estimated 60,000 to 100,000 annual deaths from the disease.

Childhood vaccines at all-time high, but poorest 20 per cent still lack access – UN

21 October 2009
Reversing a downward trend, childhood immunization rates are now at their highest ever, but due to a funding gap of at least $1 billion life-saving vaccines still do not reach some 24 million children – one in five born each year – who are most at risk in the poorest countries, according to a new United Nations report released today.
Aedes mosquito which spreads yellow fever

Inoculations in Mali get booster from Brazilian vaccine, UN agency says

11 April 2008
A campaign to vaccinate 5.7 million people across southern Mali will begin tomorrow thanks to the first-ever ‘South-South’ dose supply from South America’s only manufacturer of yellow fever vaccine, the United Nations health agency said today.