Staff Reporter
The United States is sup-porting Bangladesh’s national measles-rubella catch-up vaccination campaign through UNICEF, with the aim of protecting 3.4 million children aged six to 59 months amid the ongoing outbreak.
US Chargé d’Affaires Eric Geelan yesterday visited the vaccination campaign at T&T Field in Korail, Banani.
The campaign, launched on September 26, is be-ing supported under the United States’ America First Global Health Strategy, according to a statement attributable to US Mission Spokesper-son Poornima Rai.
He was joined by State Minister for Health Dr Mohammad Abdul Mu-hit, Dhaka North City Corporation Administra-tor Md Shafiqul Islam Khan and DNCC Chief Health Officer Brigadier General Imrul Kayes Chowdhury.
UNICEF Bangladesh Chief of Communica-tions and Advocacy Mi-guel Mateos Muñoz and UNICEF Bangladesh Immunization Lead Dr Riad Mahmud were also present.
The campaign represents a nationwide effort to vaccinate vulnerable children against measles and rubella as Bangla-desh continues to re-spond to the current out-break.
The US support, chan-neled through UNICEF, is aimed at strengthening the government’s im-munization response and expanding vaccine cov-erage among children in the target age group.
