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Mobile clinics in IDPs camp downtown Mogadishu close to former frontline. The team is screening for malnutrition.
MSF OCG started its emergency response to the Somali crisis of summer 2011 beginning of August. In addition to basic health care and nutritional care, the team launch a measles vaccination.
Mobile clinics in IDPs camp downtown Mogadishu close to former frontline. The team is screening for malnutrition. MSF OCG started its emergency response to the Somali crisis of summer 2011 beginning of August. In addition to basic health care and nutritional care, the team launch a measles vaccination.
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Measles vaccination and malnutrition

Mobile clinics in IDPs camp downtown Mogadishu close to former frontline. The team is screening for malnutrition. MSF OCG started its emergency response to the Somali crisis of summer 2011 beginning of August. In addition to basic health care and nutritional care, the team launch a measles vaccination.
© MSF
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Over the past few weeks, thousands have fled drought-affected areas to come to Mogadishu, Somalia.

Here, MSF teams are battling a deadly combination of measles and acute malnutrition among the children living in camps.

To prevent measles spreading even further, MSF teams have rushed to vaccinate more than 30,000 children over the past few weeks.

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