Somalia Launches Polio Campaign Targeting 700000 Children

Somalia' Health Ministry together with UNICEF and WHO has launched what it hopes is its last effort to completely wipe out polio from the Horn of Africa country.

The polio vaccination campaign launched on Sunday targets 726,699 children under the age of five in Banaadir and Shabelle regions.

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