The Government of Cameroon is organizing two rounds of vaccination campaign in response to the polio epidemic from May 13 to 16 and June 10 to 13, 2022, all over the national territory. This campaign follows the confirmation of cases of circulating derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) in a dozen of African countries including Cameroon. The campaign will be conducted in a synchronized manner with the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Chad and Niger. Vaccination will take place in health facilities, in households through the door-to- door strategy and also in public places such as schools, markets, chiefdoms and religious gathering. During this period, vaccination teams will administer two drops of oral polio vaccine to children aged 0 to 5 years, vitamin A to children aged 6 months to 5 years, and worm medicine to children 1 to 5 years. In addition, children aged 0 to 3 months without a birth certificate will be counted and their parents guided to a ci...
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