Bangassou - multi antigen vaccination campaign.

Since March 2016, MSF teams in Bangassou, Central African Republic, have been carrying out a massive multi antigen vaccination campaign. When the campaign ends, more than 20,000 children from 6 weeks to 59 months old will have been vaccinated against polio, yellow fever and measles, as well as pneumococcal disease, Haemophilus Influenza type B (a bacterium that causes meningitis, pneumonia and otitis), whooping cough, tetanus, hepatitis B and diphtheria.

More than 400 staff worked on this campaign, which covered more than 48 different sites in the sub-prefecture of Bangassou, Mbomou prefecture, CAR. The MSF team visited each site three times such that each child would receive the full dosage of each vaccine necessary to protect him or her.

The Bangassou campaign is part of a larger MSF initiative to ‘catch up’ children who have not previously been vaccinated or have not received a full set of inoculations because of barriers to access to healthcare.

In CAR, these barriers are many. For years, sporadic conflict has ravaged the country, and the healthcare system is very weak. Many children have been vaccinated only partially or not at all.

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