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Invest in routine immunisation to minimise future disease burden

A child gegts polio vaccine at Moi Lane in Nairobi. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

Vaccines play an important role in preventing illness and deaths. However, around one fifth of children in Africa do not receive all the necessary vaccines.

As a result, more than 30 million children on the continent under five years of age still suffer from vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs), and over half a million children die from VPDs annually - representing approximately 58 per cent VPD-related deaths worldwide.

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