Uganda: Vaccine Group Funds Cervical Cancer Immunisations for Poor

4 February 2013

London — The GAVI global vaccines group is to help protect more than 180,000 girls in eight countries across Africa and Asia from cervical cancer by funding immunisation projects with vaccines from Merck and GlaxoSmithKline.

The non-profit GAVI Alliance, which funds bulk-buy vaccination programmes for poor nations, said on Monday that Ghana, Kenya, Laos, Madagascar, Malawi, Niger, Sierra Leone and Tanzania would be the first countries to get its support for cervical cancer protection pilot projects.

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