23 Jul Dr. Orin Levine: From Maryland to Rwanda: Linking Communities to Prevent Disease
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After years of underachievement in child health, a major urban center has ramped up its immunization program so that vaccination rates are now on par with the rest of the state and the nation. To achieve this, vans have been used as mobile clinics in poorly-served communities, providing free vaccines to assure timely, complete vaccination of 80 percent of children and to prevent outbreaks of infectious disease.