Vaccine fighting six diseases cleared for developing nations

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A community health worker administers an oral polio vaccine during a door-to-door polio immunization campaign. FILE PHOTO | AFP


 

A six-in-one vaccine that fights diseases at once will soon be added to the routine immunisation schedule for developing countries such as Kenya.

The Hexavalent (six-in-one) vaccine was approved by the board of Gavi, an international organisation that supplies vaccines to lower-income countries.

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