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A child being vaccinated in a vaccination post established in Hlaing Thar Yar Township, Yangon, Myanmar
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World Immunization Week: Power of vaccines still not fully utilized, says UN health agency

24 April 2017
Vaccinations stave off 26 potentially deadly diseases, the United Nations health agency is emphasizing on the first day of World Immunization Week, which also marks the halfway point of the Organization's goal to stop millions of deaths from vaccine-preventable diseases.
A child having their fingernail marked as an indication of having received a vaccine in Maiduguri, Borno state, north-eastern Nigeria. (file)
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UN-backed campaign to help vaccinate millions of children against measles in north-east Nigeria

12 January 2017
A United Nations-supported mass vaccination campaign is set to start tomorrow to protect more than 4.7 million children against a measles outbreak in conflict-affected states in north-eastern Nigeria.