UN handling of yellow fever outbreak in Africa another failure
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By Karen Graham 7 hours ago in Health
The World Health Organization and its partners sent over six million doses of yellow fever vaccine to Angola in February, but one month later, over one million of those doses had disappeared.
When asked where the vaccines had been sent, country officials didn't seem to know what anyone was talking about. WHO representatives complained internally, suspecting the vaccines had been pilfered by local politicians and sold on the black market.
Keep in mind this event took place in March, and now it is August, and this is the first the world has heard about this. Of the shipments that did get to Angola, some vaccines were sent to areas where there was no yellow fever, and some vaccines were sent to areas that were infected, but without the needed syringes.
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