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Emergency measles vaccination campaign in Baidoa, Somalia - 2017 
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In late April 2017, almost 30,000 young children, many of them displaced by a searing drought, are being vaccinated against measles in an emergency campaign in Baidoa, in Somalia. By late April, almost 5,000 cases of suspected measles have been reported across the country, over 90 per cent of the total number of cases in 2016. Many of the children have never been immunized before – they come from remote areas health workers often cannot reach because of a decades-old conflict that has ravaged the impoverished country in the Horn of Africa. The Baidoa campaign is part of an effort to vaccinate about 110,000 displaced children below 5 years old in hotspots across south central Somalia, plus 250,000 children in Somaliland, against the deadly contagious disease, by the end of May. Conducted in partnership with the Ministry of Health, WHO, and several non-governmental organizations, it also includes a vitamin A supplement to boost immunity as well as de-worming tablets. 
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Somalia, 2017 
On 24 April 2017, a long queue of mothers and children outside the vaccination post at Beerta Muuri camp... 
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Somalia, 2017 
On 24 April 2017,(left) Isak Ali Subak, Minister of Health, South West State, giving a child vitamin... 
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Somalia, 2017 
On 24 April 2017, (left) Jayne Mbakaya, UNICEF Programme Manager, gives a child deworming tablet mixed... 
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Somalia, 2017 
On 24 April 2017, (centre) a mother gives her child a deworming tablet mixed with water at Beerta Muuri... 
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Somalia, 2017 
On 24 April 2017, a child is vaccinated against measles at the vaccination campaign launch at Beerta... 
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Somalia, 2017 
On 24 April 2017, a child is vaccinated against measles at the vaccination campaign launch at Beerta... 
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