In early July, more than 197,000 children aged between 6 months and 15 years were vaccinated against measles in a targeted immunization campaign in Koinadugu district in northern Sierra Leone.
Reaching some of the country’s most remote areas, the campaign was conducted by the Ministry of Health and Sanitation with support from the World Health Organization, UNICEF Sierra Leone, UK Department for International Development, the World Bank and other health partners following confirmed cases of the disease among children in two far apart communities in that district.