Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

PHOTO: Ibrahim's Life-Saving Vaccine

September 17, 2012

I met four-month-old Ibrahim in Lagos, Nigeria, where he just completed his full series of pentavalent vaccine – and he has a new immunization card to prove it. Without a collaboration between the  government of Nigeria and the GAVI Alliance, this child would be unprotected today. The vaccine, which protects against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), Hepatitis B and Hib (which can cause infant meningitis), was launched in Nigeria last June.

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