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More than 1 million polio vaccines intended for children have been destroyed as a result of looting in Sudan during the upsurge in violence since April, the UN children's agency UNICEF told Reuters on Friday. "A number of cold chain facilities have been looted, damaged and destroyed, including over a million polio vaccines in South Darfur," Hazel De Wet, deputy director of the Office of Emergency Programs, UNICEF told Reuters in an email. The agency was in the middle of a series of polio vaccination campaigns in Sudan following an outbreak at the end of 2022. ....
Dr. Fatima Adeli and her UNICEF-supported mobile health and nutrition team counsel children and mothers in Safeedi-Mish village, Nili District, Daikundi Province, Afghanistan, on Oct. 3, 2022.Since January of this year, 29 countries have had outbreaks of cholera the most at any one time on record, some of them places that have not seen ....