14 Feb Kenya marks the global roll out of pneumococcal vaccine against the world’s leading cause of child death
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Pneumococcal vaccines on their way to more than 40 developing countries
Nairobi, 14 February 2011 – Hundreds of infants in Kenya received their first shots against pneumococcal disease today at a special event to celebrate the global roll out of vaccines targeting the world’s biggest child killer — pneumonia.
Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki joined parents, health workers, ambassadors and donors in Nairobi to witness children being immunised as part of the Government of Kenya’s formal introduction of pneumococcal vaccine in its routine immunisation programme for all children.