Australia Supporting Vaccination Efforts of Developing Neighbours

24 February 2010

 
In September last year I announced that Australia would be joining a group of nations, led by President Obama, to support the rollout of the H1N1 vaccine to developing countries.

This week the first delivery of Australia’s contribution to this initiative was made to Laos which has received 600,600 doses of the vaccine.

This donation is the first in a commitment to provide up to 10 per cent of our pandemic vaccine for use amongst developing neighbours.

Australia’s donation of 2.1 million doses will also support Pacific Island countries, East Timor, Sri Lanka and Papua New Guinea.

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