They set up clinics in local villages and started to immunise children against tetanus and measles.
But what nobody did was immunise those children who didn't get vaccinated when they were due between 1998 and 2008.
Health committee deputy chairperson Michelle O'Neill asked public health officials why the policy to immunise all under-fives had been stopped.
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.
The WHO campaign was launched last week in a bid to immunise more than 15 million children in west and central Africa against polio.
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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.
However, the country's growing humanitarian crisis has added to the challenges, increasing the risks for vaccinators and making it harder to calculate numbers of children to immunise.
Round Alice stood three charcoal stoves on which little wire replicas of enemy weapons were heated until they glowed and then waved above the soldiers' heads to immunise them.
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.
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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.
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