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  • Title: Corridors of peace in Uganda.
    Author: Dodge C.
    Journal: Assignment Child; 1985; 69-72():345-6. PubMed ID: 12280460.
    Abstract:
    In Uganda, the UN International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) succeeded in persuading both sides in the civil war to permit the nationwide immunization program to carry on despite the conflict. In November 1985, one-third of the population (5 million people) were isolated after all road, rail, and air links along the front line of the civil war were severed. A peace agreement was signed later, but the cease fire proved of short duration. In July 1985, a nationwide immunization program had been established, operating through a network of 150 rural health centers already engaged in other UNICEF programs. Shortly after the country was divided, UNICEF approached the military government in Kampala asking permission to fly vaccines, oral rehydration salts, and medicines to the area held by the National Resistance Army (NRA) in order to keep the immunization program working. An initial request for the UNICEF representative to travel to the area was refused, but eventually a carefully worded compromise was negotiated. Under this agreement, 40 flights reached the NRA-held area. Vaccines and immunization materials were delivered to 11 of the 14 districts where immunization programs were operating, essential drugs were delivered to 58 rural health centers, and medical supplies reached 11 hospitals. This is believed to be the 1st time that a "corridor of peace" has been established in Africa during a conflict of such a size and nature.
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