Ghana has become the first country in Africa to start protecting children against two of the continent's deadliest infant diseases with simultaneous vaccinations.
Rotavirus, which causes diarrhoea, and pneumococcal disease kill more than 2.7 million children worldwide each year.
The project is backed by the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation.
At the launch health minister Alban Bagbin said the programme marked a "major fight-back".
"Our children have been dying from these vaccine-preventable diseases for too long," he said.
When combined with existing programmes against polio, measles and tuberculosis, Mr Bagbin said Ghana is on track to meet its target to cut childhood mortality by two-thirds by 2015.
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