He said the proposal to immunise women of childbearing age with MMR was in line with practices in other countries and with World Health Organization recommendations.
After defending his record and setting up a contrast with his opponents, a president up for re-election must immunise himself against the other party's attack lines.
There was much early criticism of the Millennium Villages by those who felt that country-wide programmes to keep girls in schools or immunise babies were fairer and more likely to deliver sustainable improvements.
As hardly any of them do immunise their stock-option programmes (by buying equal and offsetting options), and were therefore exposed to rising share prices, their true profits, on a full-cost accounting measure, were only 37% of those published, according to Smithers.