Cameroon to Protect Its Children Against Leading Cause of Severe Diarrhoea

press release

Yaoundé — Life-saving rotavirus vaccines to be offered as part of country's routine immunisation programme (joint press release UNICEF, WHO, GAVI Alliance)

Children in Cameroon will receive protection against rotavirus diarrhoea, thanks to the introduction today of rotavirus vaccines in Cameroon's routine immunisation programme with GAVI Alliance support. Rotavirus, the most common cause of severe and fatal diarrhoea, takes the lives of almost 6,000 Cameroonian children under five every year.

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