Bangladesh children to be vaccinated

Under the Bangladesh Millennium Development Goal 4 program, which aims to cut mortality in children aged under five, the Ministry of Health and  Family Welfare is introducing a new combination vaccine that will  protect them from five killer diseases in one injection including, for  the first time, the deadly bacterium Haemophilus influenzae. The vaccine  will be provided under the routine immunization program to nearly four  million children born in Bangladesh every year. The GAVI Alliance will  spend more than $95.0 million for procuring some 27 million doses for  2009-2010, and the Bangladesh government will invest $5.6 million over  this time.