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Eastern Africa: Boosting routine vaccinations for children Format KfW promotes protection against diarrhoeal diseases, measles and pneumococcus Vaccinations against COVID-19 are currently the focus of attention, but protection against other diseases must not be forgotten. On behalf of the German Federal Government, KfW, together with GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, is promoting routine vaccinations of children in the East African Community (EAC). Since the beginning of this cooperation, 120 million vaccine doses have already been provided. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the children s relief organisation UNICEF have already warned that the number of child vaccinations has declined alarmingly. In East Africa, child mortality is still very high despite significant progress. In 2017, it was 57.35 per thousand. About half of the child deaths are due to infectious diseases that could have been prevented through vaccination. Besides diarrhoea, these are mainly respiratory diseases

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