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UNIVERSITY OF LIMPOPO
Established on the 1st January 2005, the University of Limpopo is a product of the merger between the University of the North (now the Turfloop Campus) and the Medical University of Southern Africa (now the Medunsa Campus).
The mission statement of the University of Limpopo is:
A world-class African University which responds to education,
research and community needs through partnerships and
knowledge generation – continuing the tradition of empowerment.
The merger brings together two universities with long and proud histories, each having played a significant role in the transformation, reconstruction and development of the new South Africa.
The Medunsa Campus is currently houses SAVIC.
UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP
The University of Limpopo has a proud and long history of scientific collaboration with the University of Antwerp, in the fields of vaccination, immunisation and epidemiology of vaccine-preventable diseases.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Immunisation against major communicable diseases remains the highest priority on the health agenda worldwide. The South African Department of Health is heavily committed to universal childhood vaccination through its national Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI-SA). The SA Ministry of Health has the vision of seeing every child, irrespective of geographic and socio-economic background, fully protected from all EPI vaccine-preventable diseases. Vaccination is provided for free to all children in South Africa, within the framework of primary health care. This vision is shared by other world health bodies, alliances, coalitions, and agencies such as the WHO, GAVI, UNICEF, Children's Vaccine Program (CVP) at PATH, Vaccine Fund, etc.
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