The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) signed the agreement here on Sunday, a U.N press statement said Monday. UNICEF will obtain vaccines on behalf of the UNHCR based on the current UNICEF supply catalogue and price list or other estimates provided by UNICEF - which are lower than what the other agency pays, according to the memorandum of understanding.
The UNHCR spends about $200,000 every year on vaccines for hundreds of thousands of refugee children and pregnant women living in refugee villages and for their host communities, the statement added.
"The vaccines are designed to prevent diseases such as polio, measles, tuberculosis, diphtheria, hepatitis B and tetanus," it noted.
