{"id":179658,"date":"2016-09-30T13:07:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T13:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/meningitis-vaccination-campaign-starts-in-north-darfur\/"},"modified":"2016-09-30T13:07:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T13:07:00","slug":"meningitis-vaccination-campaign-starts-in-north-darfur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/meningitis-vaccination-campaign-starts-in-north-darfur","title":{"rendered":"Meningitis vaccination campaign starts in North Darfur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Thursday, a vaccination campaign against meningitis among children was launched in North Darfur.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are targeting 293,575 children between one year and four years,&rdquo; the head of the North Darfur immunisation department, Ahmed Mohamed El Doma, told the press in the capital El Fasher.<\/p>\n<p>He appealed to the parents in the state to let their children be vaccinated to avoid contracting the deadly disease.<\/p>\n<p>The UN World Health Organisation (WHO) announced in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emro.who.int\/sdn\/sudan-news\/sudan-first-to-introduce-life-saving-meningitis-a-vaccine-into-routine-immunization.html\">July this year<\/a> that about 720,000 children under one year of age in Sudan will be vaccinated this year against meningitis through the routine immunisation system.<\/p>\n<p>Meningitis is a serious life-threatening infection that affects the brain and spinal cord. Meningitis in Africa mainly occurs within the meningitis belt which stretches from Senegal to Ethiopia, putting about 430 million people at risk.<\/p>\n<p>Sudan falls within the Meningitis Belt and accounts for about two in every 100 cases (15 per cent), according to WHO Global Disease Burden Data.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sws_supernormalaction\"><button on=\"tap:superwebshare-lightbox\" class=\"superwebshare_normal_button1 superwebshare-button-large superwebshare-button-square superwebshare_prompt superwebshare_button_svg\" style=\"color:#ffffff;background-color: #d52631;\" ><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"superwebshare-svg\"  fill=\"currentColor\" viewBox=\"0 0 1000 1000\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"0\"><path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" d=\"M789.86,323.67c91.79,0,164.25-72.46,164.25-164.25S881.64,0,789.86,0S625.6,72.46,625.6,164.25c0,4.83,0,14.49,0,24.15L306.76,371.98c-24.15-24.15-57.97-33.82-96.62-33.82c-91.79,0-164.25,72.46-164.25,164.25s72.46,164.25,164.25,164.25c38.65,0,72.46-14.49,96.62-33.82L625.6,821.26c0,9.66,0,14.49,0,19.32c0,86.96,72.46,159.42,159.42,159.42s159.42-72.46,159.42-159.42s-67.63-159.42-154.59-159.42c-33.82,0-67.63,9.66-96.62,33.82L374.4,526.57c0-9.66,0-19.32,0-24.15s0-14.49,0-24.15l318.84-188.41C717.39,314.01,751.21,323.67,789.86,323.67z\" \/><\/svg><span>Share article<\/span><\/button><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, a vaccination campaign against meningitis among children was launched in North Darfur.<br \/>\n\u201cWe are targeting 293,575 children between one year and four years,\u201d the head of the North Darfur immunisation department, Ahmed Mohamed El Doma, told the press in the capital El Fasher.<br \/>\nHe appealed to the parents in the state to let their children be vaccinated to avoid contracting the deadly disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Meningitis vaccination campaign starts in North Darfur - Dabanga Radio TV Online<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/meningitis-vaccination-campaign-starts-in-north-darfur\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Meningitis vaccination campaign starts in North Darfur - Dabanga Radio TV Online\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On Thursday, a vaccination campaign against meningitis among children was launched in North Darfur. \u201cWe are targeting 293,575 children between one year and four years,\u201d the head of the North Darfur immunisation department, Ahmed Mohamed El Doma, told the press in the capital El Fasher. 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