Tanzania

July 30 - August 1, 2005
Children vaccinated: 6,036,865 (97% coverage)
Deaths averted per year: 9,070
Other health interventions: vitamin A (97% coverage), mebendazole (de-worming medication 98% coverage), insecticide treated nets (malaria prevention 101% coverage)

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September 2001 and October 2002
Children vaccinated: 14,439,378
Deaths averted per year: 13,955
Red Cross Volunteers: 1,000
Percentage of targeted population reached: 101%

One-third of the country was covered with vaccination campaigns in 2001, with another one-third to be completed in 2002.

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A total of 775 volunteers and 773 in-school youths visited a total of 68,023 households in the Districts of Maswa and Meatu in Shinyanga Region, and Morogoro urban and Ulanga in Morogoro Region.

More than 503,377 children were vaccinated representing more than 100% of the estimated population of children in these four districts.