2018 Subnational Yellow Fever Preventive Mass Vaccination Campaign Launched in the Western Region
The Western Regional Health Directorate in collaboration with the Ghana Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) has launched a seven-day mass vaccination campaign against deadly viral haemorrhagic diease, Yellow fever in five selected districts in the region. At the launch, Dr. Kofi Asemanyi-Mensah (Deputy Director in charge of Public Health) revealed that the exercise, which excludes pregnant women, would take place in the Bodi, Juaboso, Wassa Amenfi West, Wassa Amenfi Central and Wasa Amenfi East districts of the Western Region from 28th November to 4th December, 2018, for people aged between 10-60 years. He said the vaccination campaign would be extended to the remaining districts in the region in 2019, nonetheless these five districts were selected due to the fact that they have been classified in a 2010 assessment on Yellow fever as "very high risk". According to Dr Asemanyi-Mensah, tropical areas of Africa including Ghana and Latin America have been noted to