LG And IVI Join Hands To Deliver Hope To Children In Ethiopia Through Vaccination
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Anthony Flynn, Deputy Director-General of IVI
Abraham Assefa, Head of Armaer Hansen Research Institute(AHRI)
Won-woo Na, President of LG’s Kenya subsidiary
Ahmed Emano Mustafa, Director of Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Ministry of Health
“This program is part of a larger campaign that strives to deliver on our message of ‘Hope for Life is Good,’” said Won-woo Na, President of LG’s Kenya subsidiary. “We want to instill hope and aspiration that by beating preventable diseases, we can end the cycle of poverty and disease and give children in Ethiopia the opportunities they so rightly deserve.”
Since last year, LG has been focusing all of its efforts in Ethiopia by working with the IVI, a Korea-based international organization devoted to developing new vaccines for developing countries. The IVI has been providing technical support to the Ethiopian government in order to strengthen the health care system and to better address the wide-ranging logistical and infrastructure requirements needed to successfully implement a large-scale vaccination program in Ethiopia. The program’s aim is to dramatically re-duce the number of children in Africa – as many as 120,000 a year according to the WHO – who die every year due to acute watery diarrhea (AWD), mainly from drinking contaminated water. Immunizing children against AWD is among the most effective ways to prevent needless deaths and suffering. LG expects to immunize 20,000 Ethio-pian children from 2012 to 2013.
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2023년 9월 18일 09:41
