Two new vaccines give Ghana hope for healthy growth

ACCRA (Reuters) – When Odei Antwi-Agyei had the chance of introducing vaccines to prevent Ghana’s children dying of diarrhea, or vaccines to stop them dying of pneumonia, he did what no African immunization chief has done before. He said he’d do both at the same time. The logistics of such a plan are enormous even in a relatively small country of 24 million people. Just keeping the stockpiles of vaccines cool is tough in a tropical nation where average daytime temperatures are 30 degrees Celsius and rural electricity supplies are not reliable. …