July 2019: UNICEF launches urgent measles campaign in DRC

After almost 2,000 deaths—two-thirds of them among children under 5—UNICEF announced on July 11 that it is launching an urgent measles vaccination campaign in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to target 67,000 children in displacement camps in Ituri province. “The combined threat of Ebola and measles for the thousands of families living in overcrowded and unsanitary displacement camps is unprecedented,” said UNICEF DRC representative Edouard Beigbeder. UNICEF