MaximsNewsNetwork: 24 November 2009 - UNICEF: A UNICEF health campaign reaches displaced communities in Somalia's Afgoye Corridor for the first time, providing at least 46000 children with a life-saving health package. For the first time ever, the Child Health Days Campaign reached displaced communities in Somalias Afgoye Corridor, providing at least 46000 children with a life-saving health package. The Afgoye Corridor is a 30-kilometer stretch of road west of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, where more than 500000 people displaced by conflict have sought refuge. And it is one of the places in Somalia where humanitarian access is limited, due to extreme insecurity. The five-day campaign in Afgoye is part of a nation-wide programme supported by UNICEF and WHO, to promote child survival in a country where one in every seven children dies before the age of five and routine immunization is amongst the lowest in the world. Every under-five child is immunized against measles and polio, diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus, and provided with Vitamin A, de-worming tablets and nutritional screening. In Afgoye, 37000 women of child-bearing age were immunized against neonatal tetanus. The Child Health Days package also includes oral rehydration salts to treat diarrhoea, and water purification tablets. This intervention is crucial in a location such as Afgoye, the most densely populated settlement in the world for the displaced. Living conditions are harsh, and basic social services ...
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