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Measles
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Wednesday 25 November 2020
November 24, 2020 (JUBA) - The second phase of the measles follow up campaign to vaccinate over 690,000 children aged 6-59 months against measles to ensure continuation of immunization activities commenced on November 15, despite the (...)
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Saturday 14 February 2015
February 13, 2015 (BENTIU) – Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has reported 93 cases of measles in Yida refugee camp in South Sudan’s Unity state. A South Sudanese child is vaccinated for measles as part of an MSF campaign in 2011 (Photo: (...)
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Thursday 2 April 2015
April 1, 2015 (KHARTOUM) – The first batch of 9.6 million doses of measles vaccines ordered to support a mass immunisation campaign arrived in Sudan on Tuesday. An aid workers administers a polio vaccine to a Sudanese boy (Photo: AFP) (...)
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Monday 28 April 2014
April 27, 2014 (JUBA) – Seven South Sudan states will benefit from immunisation campaign initiated by the health ministry in collaboration with its partners. Salva Kiir administers Polio vaccine to a child as the mother looks on (...)
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Wednesday 22 April 2015
April 21 April 2015 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan’s heath ministry received the second batch measles vaccine doses on Tuesday as heath workers prepare to launch a vaccination campaign in the country. A poster issued by the Sudanese ministry of (...)
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Monday 27 August 2012
August 26, 2012 (JUBA) - The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has expressed concern over the health situation of thousands of refugees living in camps and settlements across South Sudan’s Upper Nile and Unity states. Sudanese refugees wait (...)
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Tuesday 17 September 2013
September 16, 2013 (BOR) - Tens of thousands of children are being vaccinated against mealses, polio, tetanus, diphtheria (DPT), pertussis and tuberculosis (TB) in South Sudan’s Jonglei state. Map showing location of Jonglei state in (...)
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Friday 16 June 2017
June 15, 2017 (BOR)-At least 20,000 children had been vaccinated across the three counties in former Twic East of Jonglei state, despite previous reports of the vaccine being regarded as killer toxin to kids. Three-year-old Sarah is (...)
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Friday 25 May 2012
May 24, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Nearly 40 students undergoing military training as part of mandatory national service in Sudan’s northern Nile River State have been quarantined after they contracted measles.
The measles outbreak started two (...)
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Thursday 26 October 2017
October 25, 2017 (NYAL) - At least 10 children have died from Measles and over 100 have been admitted in South Sudan’s Payinjiar county, an area health official disclosed. Three-year-old Sarah is immunised against measles in South (...)
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