Sudan begins a major polio vaccination drive targeting 11 million children across all 18 states
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The Ministry of Health launched a vaccination campaign to protect 11 million children from polio throughout the Sudan, including in Darfur and Western Kordofan. The second such campaign was carried out during the current year, during which a campaign was launched last April to vaccinate 4.3 million children in the states of Qadaraf, Al-Jazeera, Kassala, Khartoum, North Kordofan, Sanaar, and White Nile.