South Sudan’s nationwide anti-measles campaign pays off
Awerial County’s vaccine blind spots included cattle camps and a remote lake island, but April’s ambitious mobile outreach efforts have calmed the early year’s spike in cases.
Acayo Winnie Cirino is a freelance journalist with Voice of America’s South Sudan in Focus program. For the past eight years Winnie has been a news anchor at the state-owned South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation (SSBC) Television. She also worked as a reporter, program presenter and news anchor at the Juba-based Radio Bakhita, Citizen TV and Equator Broadcasting Corporation (EBC).
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