With one in five African children lacking access to basic life-saving vaccines, ministers of health recently committed themselves to keep immunisation at the forefront of efforts to reduce child mortality, morbidity and disability.
At a landmark Ministerial Conference on Immunization in Africa held from Wednesday to Thursday, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the ministers signed a declaration to promote the use of vaccines to protect people against vaccine-preventable diseases and to close the immunisation gap by 2020.
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