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Vaccination Week of the Americas aims to boost immunization rates throughout Latin America and the Caribbean
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Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean are wrapping up the Vaccination Week of the Americas, an annual vaccination initiative covering 44 countries and territories in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. In Haiti alone, an estimated 60,000 children under the age of five received life-saving immunizations in the past week. UNICEF Radio spoke with UNICEF's regional health advisor for Latin American and the Caribbean, Enrique Paz, about the efforts.
