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Bracing for a short, sharp jab
Nine month old Emabet is about to receive her measles vaccination, in Ethiopia's Merawi province.
One in ten children across Ethiopia do not live to see their fifth birthday, with many dying of preventable diseases, like measles, pneumonia, malaria and diarrhoea.
But British aid has helped to double immunisation rates across Ethiopia in the past five years, by funding medicines, equipment and training for doctors and nurses.
Additional funding from the UK and other countries will help GAVI roll out new, life-saving vaccines in other countries around the world.
To find out more, please see the full story at: www.dfid.gov.uk/Media-Room/Features/2011/One-simple-jab-m...
Picture: Pete Lewis / DFID
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Bracing for a short, sharp jab
Nine month old Emabet is about to receive her measles vaccination, in Ethiopia's Merawi province.
One in ten children across Ethiopia do not live to see their fifth birthday, with many dying of preventable diseases, like measles, pneumonia, malaria and diarrhoea.
But British aid has helped to double immunisation rates across Ethiopia in the past five years, by funding medicines, equipment and training for doctors and nurses.
Additional funding from the UK and other countries will help GAVI roll out new, life-saving vaccines in other countries around the world.
To find out more, please see the full story at: www.dfid.gov.uk/Media-Room/Features/2011/One-simple-jab-m...
Picture: Pete Lewis / DFID
Terms of use
This image is posted under a Creative Commons - Attribution Licence, in accordance with the Open Government Licence. You are free to embed, download or otherwise re-use it, as long as you credit the source as 'Pete Lewis / Department for International Development'.