{"id":10707,"date":"2018-11-09T09:09:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T09:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=10707"},"modified":"2018-11-09T09:09:43","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T09:09:43","slug":"health-ministry-to-launch-vaccination-campaign-against-meningococcal-meningitis-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/health-ministry-to-launch-vaccination-campaign-against-meningococcal-meningitis-in-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Health ministry to launch vaccination campaign against meningococcal meningitis in December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Ministry of Health plans to launch the vaccination campaign against meningococcal meningitis strain A from 3 to 14 December throughout the country,&#8221; said Thadd\u00e9e Ndikumana, Minister of Health in a press conference held on November 8.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10705\" style=\"width: 428px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10705\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-10705\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/vaccin-1-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"A child receiving the vaccine in one Bujumbura Hospitals \" width=\"418\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/vaccin-1-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/vaccin-1-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/vaccin-1-600x345.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/vaccin-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10705\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A child receiving the vaccine in one Bujumbura Hospitals<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The last vaccination against this disease took place in 1992 and its immunity lasts ten years. &#8220;We noticed that the Burundian population is not protected,\u201d said Ndikumana.<\/p>\n<p>He indicates that the results of the diagnostics performed after lumbar punctures have proved that some children develop meningococcal meningitis A. &#8220;We therefore decided to protect the Burundian population,\u201d he said adding that the most affected people are aged between 1 and 29.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the vaccination campaign will jointly be conducted by the Ministry of Health and the administration. In addition to the Health Ministry staff, directors of various health districts will recruit paramedics or physicians to work during this campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Ministry of Health plans to launch the vaccination campaign against meningococcal meningitis strain A from 3 to 14 December throughout the country,&#8221; said Thadd\u00e9e Ndikumana, Minister of Health in a press conference held on November 8. The last vaccination against this disease took place in 1992 and its immunity lasts ten years. &#8220;We noticed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":10705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,670],"tags":[108,784],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10708,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10707\/revisions\/10708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}