In Kenyan camps, vaccine protects Somali refugee children from killer pneumonia

In Kenyan camps, vaccine protects Somali refugee children from killer pneumonia

Manuel Moreno and Kyle O’Donoghue, UNICEF

DADAAB, Kenya, 17 September 2011 – About six months ago, Kenya was one of the first countries in Africa to introduce the pneumococcal vaccine, and children now have access to this life-saving intervention through routine immunization in the Dadaab refugee camps in the north-east of the country.

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