Medecins Sans Frontieres reported on Wednesday that by mid-March 40,000 people had been vaccinated against meningitis in the western district of Batangafo, in the Central African Republic. The ongoing vaccination drive was launched on 8 March in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and includes protection against measles. MSF reported that all 59,000 people over two years old in Batangafo and neighbouring rural areas, some 386 km north the nation's capital, Bangui, were being vaccinated.