JUBA, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- South Sudan, in partnership with two United Nations (UN) agencies, on Tuesday launched an integrated health campaign to protect over 2.1 million children and 1.2 million adults from polio and schistosomiasis, two debilitating diseases.
The four-day campaign will see health workers and volunteers moving door-to-door across 40 counties to administer the Oral Polio Vaccine Type 2 to children under five years old, while providing preventive measures with Praziquantel tablets to school-aged children and at-risk communities of schistosomiasis in three counties.
