The call by experts at the Uganda Cancer Institute follows a report indicating that more children are increasingly suffering from cancer across the world than previously thought. The commonest of these are Burkitt Lymphoma, a cancer that affects the jaw followed by Kaposi sarcoma, a cancer that develops from the blood vessels and commonly associated with HIV.
According to Dr. Jane Acheng, the Health Ministry has secured vaccines worth Shillings 8 billion with funding from UNICEF, World Health Organisation and PATH, an international health Organisation.
