Announcement
U.S. Ambassador Cameron Hume Promotes Childhood Immunization
Jakarta |
Monday, November 05, 2007
USAID/Payton Deeks
Ambassador Hume greets a mother who has brought her baby in for immunization.
U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia, Cameron R. Hume emphasizes the importance of childhood immunization during a recent Ministry of Health's National Childhood Immunization event in Jakarta.
"Alleviating preventable childhood diseases is one of the most fundamental ways in which we can all be good ancestors. Every child has the right to proper and timely childhood immunization," said Hume at the National Child Immunization event. "Today we celebrate the Government of Indonesia's goal to immunize as many children as possible against the most deadly diseases of early childhood."
The Ministry of Health's Expanded Program for Immunization has established the goal of providing routine immunization services to protect Indonesia's children against vaccine-preventable diseases such as diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough) and measles. Support for Ministry of Health's program comes from the Millennium Challenge Corporation's Indonesia Immunization Project, which is administered by USAID.
For more information about the MCC Threshold Program in Indonesia, please see /en/Program.8.aspx