Somali Health Coalition

Somali Health Coalition tackles health in Minnesota Somali community

By Andrea Parrott, TC Daily Planet

A Somali Health Coalition meeting. Photo courtesy of Mahad Abdi. 

During the measles outbreak in 2011, awareness spread about the importance of receiving both doses of the MMR vaccine. There was a problem, however. A study, now known to be fraudulent, linked the MMR vaccine to autism, causing some parents to refuse immunization for their children. As autism has appeared to rise in the Minnesota Somali community, Somali parents have become among those who avoid the MMR vaccine. That’s where the Somali Health Coalition stepped in.

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