Two new vaccines give Ghana hope for healthy growth

ACCRA – When Odei Antwi-Agyei had the chance of introducing vaccines to prevent Ghana’s children dying of diarrhoea, or vaccines to stop them dying of pneumonia, he did what no African immunisation chief has done before. He said he’d do both at the same time.

The logistics of such a plan are enormous even in a relatively small country of 24 million people.

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