With help from UNICEF and partners, Chad eliminates MNT paid UNICEFUSA
has helped to increase equitable access to lifesaving immunizations for some of the most vulnerable mothers and children in the world. With their partnership, UNICEF has been able to vaccinate millions of women of reproductive age against tetanus. © UNICEF/UN0294743/Frank Dejongh, commonly found in dirt. Cases of tetanus are rare in the United States and other parts of the developed world.
A mother and her baby daughter wait to be vaccinated at the UNICEF-supported health center in Ambatta, a suburb of Ndjamena, the capital of Chad, in 2019.The only way to eliminate MNT is to immunize women between 15 and 49 years old. The tetanus vaccine is free to all in Chad. © UNICEF Chad Between 1999 and March 2019, more than 154 million women have been immunized with two or more doses of the vaccine that prevents MNT. The number of newborns who die of tetanus every year has dropped 85 percent since 2000.© UNICEF/UN0294741/Frank Dejongh
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