Boukar Beni, Hygiene Promoter at Minawao camp for displaced persons, Cameroon.

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  <article> <h1> <span>Boukar Beni, Hygiene Promoter at Minawao camp for displaced persons, Cameroon.</span> </h1> <ul> <li> <b>22 March 2016</b> </li> </ul> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <article id="post-283" class="module single-post-module post-283 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-people tag-africa tag-cameroon tag-cholera tag-refugees tag-sanitation tag-vaccineportrait tag-world-water-day et-has-post-format-content et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"> <div> <div> <p><img id="portrait" src="http://gaviweb.org/vaccineswork/vaccine-portraits-icon.gif" alt="image" loading="lazy"><i><b> </b></i></p> <p>“Here in Minawao, our problem at the moment is cholera. Since the day before yesterday, we have started to give the vaccination against cholera to people. We must help people. People may have been suffering since last year. We have started to vaccinate people against cholera. Every day we give as many as 700 people as many as 800, 900.</p> <p>We want to rid this place of cholera. It’s because of that, that we have now done this. Water is also essential. We tell people that cleaning is essential. You have to clean where you sleep. You have to clean everything – clean the material, where you wash your hands. Even eating, you have to wash before eating. That is what we are are explaining to people.”</p> <hr> <p><i><em>Boukar spoke to Gavi in 2015. Learn more about cholera vaccines in Cameroon <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoS4abMiUvs" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>. </em></i></p> <p><i> This World Water Day, you can also read about a new cholera vaccine <a href="http://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(16)00037-1/fulltext?rss=yes" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>.</i></p> </div> </div> <input type="hidden" id="post_id" value="283"> </article> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <p> <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.gavi.org/boukar-beni-hygiene-promoter-at-minawao-camp-for">Original article</a> </p><p>This article was originally published on <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork">VaccinesWork</a> </p><script>(function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start': new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0], j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src= 'https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f); })(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-M7H54VD');</script><noscript><iframe src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-M7H54VD" height="0" width="0" style="display:none;visibility:hidden"></iframe></noscript></article>

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