Media centre  Horn of Africa countries jointly bolster drive to
eradicate polio  Millions of children along the borders of
Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia will be vaccinated in the largest
ever cross-border immunization in the region  WHO/UNICEF news
release  Countries in the Horn of Africa are increasing their
level of planning, coordination and streamlining their polio
eradication strategies to cut the corridor of transmission of
the poliovirus. Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya will simultaneously
vaccinate millions of children under five years of age from 9-12
September in the largest-ever synchronized vaccination campaign
in the Horn of Africa.  In Ethiopia, the polio vaccination
campaign will administer two drops of Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV)
to 956,886 children, from the two regions of Somali and Afar
that border Somalia and parts of Kenya. On the Somali side of
the border, vaccinators will aim to reach a total of 1.7 million
children in a nation-wide campaign, with exceptional
concentration on regions bordering E