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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Sarah Johnson in Madrid

Pneumonia vaccine delays kill thousands needlessly in Africa

A baby is held while an injection goes into its leg
A Somali baby gets a vaccine against common childhood diseases in Mogadishu, but the PCV vaccine to fight pneumonia is still not available. Photograph: Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty

Delays in rolling out a vaccine against childhood pneumonia in four of the world’s poorest countries have been blamed for thousands of unnecessary deaths.

South Sudan, Somalia, Guinea and Chad are four of the last African nations without the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV), one of the most powerful tools against pneumonia in children.

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