Red Cross vaccination campaign for children in a Sudanese camp
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1989
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With widespread disease in many parts of the developing world during the 1980s, the International Red Cross played an active role in helping those affected and preventing or limiting outbreaks. The British Red Cross supported these efforts, mainly through donations of medical supplies or cash and sending medical personnel.
In 1989, the British Red Cross contributed medical supplies worth around £25,000 to help fight cholera epidemics in Angola and meningitis in Ethiopia and Jordan. The Ethiopian meningitis outbreak caused at least 1,500 deaths between September 1988 and March 1989 alone. The British Red Cross supported the League of Red Cross Societies (IFRC) by shipping 100,000 doses of vaccine to Addis Ababa in 1989. The organisation sent around 50,000 doses of vaccine, and a similar quantity of syringes and needles, to Jordan where an epidemic also continued at the time.
In 1989, the British Red Cross contributed medical supplies worth around £25,000 to help fight cholera epidemics in Angola and meningitis in Ethiopia and Jordan. The Ethiopian meningitis outbreak caused at least 1,500 deaths between September 1988 and March 1989 alone. The British Red Cross supported the League of Red Cross Societies (IFRC) by shipping 100,000 doses of vaccine to Addis Ababa in 1989. The organisation sent around 50,000 doses of vaccine, and a similar quantity of syringes and needles, to Jordan where an epidemic also continued at the time.
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150.47
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