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Life saving vaccine for Africa

Life saving vaccine for Africa

01 July 2010

MRF is delighted with the World Health Organization's approval for a new vaccine for the meningococcal group A strain which causes so much death and disability throughout the world, particularly in the meningitis belt in sub-Saharan Africa.

Read more about the new low cost vaccine that could save thousands of lives in MRF's International Development Officer Rachel Perrin's blog piece.

Thomas Michael Ward

Meningococcal disease

Meningococcal disease at 5  now 18months old when it happened

Seeing my little baby looking so helpless was awful.

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