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President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud of the Federal Republic of Somalia administers vitamin A drops to a child during the<br />
launch of the new inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) and measles campaign in Mogadishu, November 2015.<br />
In November 2015, the inactivated polio vaccine<br />
(IPV) was introduced. More than 450,000 Somali<br />
children born each year will receive one dose of<br />
the new vaccine as part of a routine immunization<br />
programme.<br />
Where possible, UNICEF has used solar power for<br />
cold chain refrigeration and is replacing CFC-based<br />
cold storage equipment. For vaccine storage, 147<br />
Solar Direct Drive refrigerators were procured in<br />
2015 to replace the kerosene-based equipment.<br />
In the March 2015 campaign, when 99 per cent of<br />
2.1 million targeted children were given the polio<br />
vaccine, Vitamin A was also administered to 1.5<br />
million of the children. In November, a 10-day<br />
nationwide measles vaccination campaign targeting<br />
children under 10 years of age reached more than 2<br />
million children in Puntland and Central Somalia.<br />
And in December, for the first time in Somalia,<br />
the measles immunization campaign was linked<br />
to a Birth Registration Campaign, which provided<br />
access to a large number of unregistered children<br />
in Somaliland.<br />
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