Fraud! Cameroon doubles vaccination figures to get more aid

The distinguished British medical journal, The Lancet, puts Cameroon among 32 other, mostly African, countries that inflate their vaccination performance rate in order to get more foreign aid for the vaccination campaign

To encourage vaccination against endemic diseases in Africa, the international community supports African countries financially. A Global Alliance for vaccines and immunisation (GAVI) pays 20 US dollars (about 10,000 FCFA) for extra child vaccinated beyond the given target in sub-Saharan Africa. With its greatest effort, Cameroon achieves only an estimated 40 percent, beyond its performance target. But in order to earn more money, it inflates this figure to up to 80 percent. But Cameroon is not alone in this practice. It is among 32 other African countries that inflate their vaccination performance figure in order to attract more aid per child. These disclosures are contained in a research article published in The Loncet, the highly respected British medical journal. Some of the countries listed are Ghana, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, DR Congo and Pakistan. Some countries out of the list are Nigeria, Senegal and South Africa. Christopher Murray, the lead author of the report and director of the Institute for Health Metrics at the University of Washington said from 1986 to 2006, the UN announced that 14 million children received immunisations in the programs worldwide. That figure, according the report, has been scaled down by half to 7 million