São Paulo – The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) aims to immunise children and adults in low and middle income countries against diseases like pneumonia and diarrhoea, as well as to fight cervical cancer. Among the nations that should benefit are Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria and Tunisia. The information was disclosed by Radio UN.
According to the United Nations site, Unicef plans to take vaccination to these countries at a low cost, improving global access to new medication that protect people against the human papilloma virus, the main cause of cervical cancer, rotavirus, which causes diarrhoea, and pneumococcus bacteria, which causes pneumonia.
The UN fund invites the pharmaceutical industry to supply a sustainable stock of vaccines at a reduced cost in needy countries from 2013 to 2015.
*Translated by Mark Ament
