Pneumonia vaccines and racial remarks

Havana (they spell it Habana but we can still pronounce it with the "v") scientists have developed a new pneumonia vaccine that is going into clinical trials. It doesn’t say if it is what the Institute calls “the only Group-B meningococcus vaccine,” though that sounds a bit afield from pneumonia. The Biblioteca Virtual en Vacunas, a Latin-American “Virtual (presumably online) Bible of Vaccines," reports that Zimbabwe, one of the countries with lowest life expectancy, has introduced the conjugated pneumococcal vaccine, PCV for small children. The Biblioteca says this “supposes a great advance in the health of the population.” And this may not be pie in the sky, despite the Hispanic tendency toward sweeping statements. That sounds like a pure and simple racist remark, but it is based on my living three years in Spain and Brazil, and spending 40 years talking to Spanish and Portuguese native speakers in their own tongues. US Afro-Americans, on the other hand, seem to major in understatement, or low-key reactions to things. Apparently life, and possibly even recent political events, have taught them to go easy when it comes to wild hope and enthusiasm. Back to pneumonia. We can note that US children began to get PCV vaccine in large numbers in 2001. By 2004 careful reports found that pneumonia hospital admissions among the entire population, not just children, had dropped more than ONE-THIRD (emphasis mine). If that's not a great advance, I don't know what is. Zimbabwe's introduction of PCV comes on top of recent five-year campaigns to vaccinate against polio and sarampion (smallpox? no, dear, measles, rubella. Very close.), and to provide vitamin A to “almost 2 million under age 5.” Rotavirus or RSV vaccine is set to arrive in Zimbabwe in 2013. PCV introduction came by a collaboration among the Zimbabwian (sp?) ministry of health, UNICEF (do we always have to capitalize that whole word?), and GAVI (same question!), the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization. Zimbabwe is GAVI’s 18th country to get PCV, among them Haiti, which needs all the shots in the arm it can get. Now which chunk of Africa does Zimbabwe hold? The same as Rhodesia did, and not far from South Africa?