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WHO (file)

Kiribati: UN backs new vaccine to protect children from life-threatening diarrhoea

5 August 2015
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) are supporting a new vaccination campaign announced today by the Government of Kiribati to protect children from a potentially killer virus.
A child receives a vaccination against meningitis in E Fasher, North Darfur.
UNAMID/Albert González Farran

UN agencies and partners warn of ‘acute shortage’ of meningitis vaccines

28 July 2015
West Africa is at risk of a large meningitis outbreak unless drug manufacturers increase vaccine production by 5 million doses before the 2016 meningitis season starts in January, the United Nations and leading public health organizations warned today.