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Doctors Without Borders: New Global Vaccine Strategy Glosses Over Basic Immunization Gaps

 

South Sudan 2011 © Avril Benoit/MSF — An MSF staff member vaccinates a child against measles in Abathok.

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GENEVA/NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–15 MAY 2012—A new, ten-year, multi-billion dollar action plan for global vaccination may fail to deliver if it does not directly address the weaknesses in routine immunization programs. One in five children—nineteen million worldwide—are being missed each year and this challenge must be explicitly addressed, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)…

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