Thursday, April 23, 2009

Rwanda Becomes First Developing Nation to Introduce Vaccine for World's Leading Infectious Child Killer

Apr 23, 2009 - International leaders in global health will join Rwandan government officials at a press conference in the coming days in Kigali to announce the first national immunisation programme against pneumococcal disease in a developing country. Pneumococcal disease, which can cause potentially life-threatening illnesses such as pneumonia, meningitis and sepsis, is the leading vaccine-preventable killer of children younger than five worldwide.

the details can be read here.

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