Two-week Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine drive against Extensively Drug Resistant will begin across Sindh from on Monday (Nov 18).

Our Karachi correspondent reports that over ten million children, aged between nine months to fifteen years, will be vaccinated during the drive.

Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Health Services Dr. Zafar Mirza inaugurated the campaign on Friday along with Provincial Minister for Health Dr Azra Pechuho.

They asked the parents to get their children vaccinated against this drug resistant form of typhoid.

Meanwhile, according to an international organization GAVI, a global Vaccine Alliance, Pakistan has become the first country in the world to introduce the World Health Organization's recommended Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine into its immunization program.          

It is the first typhoid vaccine that can be given to children as young as six months of age and confers longer term protection against typhoid.

The vaccine will be introduced in Punjab province and Islamabad next year and then nationally in 2021.

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