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Haiti: U.N. Embarks on Countrywide Immunisation Campaign


In cooperation with international partners, the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti, the World Health Organization, UNICEF and the Government of Haiti have begun a countrywide immunization campaign, which is expected to reach some 5.7 million people (or nearly 60% of Haiti's population).  The campaign was officially launched in Port-au-Prince yesterday in the presence of Haitian Prime Minister Jacques Edouard and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Haiti, Hédi Annabi.
 
Projected to cost $9.5 million, this mass immunization campaign is expected to help reduce the prevalence of diseases such as measles among children and young adolescents and polio among children up to the age of 4. For women aged 15 to 49, the campaign will focus on immunization for tetanus.

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