Leaders Launch Drive to Curb Polio in Africa
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Political leaders and health workers launched a drive Saturday to immunise more than 80 million children against polio in 23 African nations and fight back against a resurgence of the crippling disease.
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The west African state of Cameroon launched a campaign to vaccinate four million children against polio, a disease once thought eradicated here but feared again because of outbreaks in neighbouring states.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown launched an international initiative Wednesday to improve the quality of healthcare in some of the world&#39;s poorest countries.
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JOHANNESBURG -- Health workers across west and central Africa began a 23-country polio immunization campaign yesterday to reach more than 80 million children in the next several days. The undertaking is part of an international effort to eradicate the disease by next year.
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Tanzania's president and opposition leaders launch a campaign for voluntary HIV/Aids testing by being tested in public.
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Ethiopia has launched an emergency  polio immunization campaign, fearing an outbreak of the highly  infectious disease in neighboring Sudan could spread, the  Health Ministry said on Friday.
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A week-long effort to immunise 300 million children in Africa and Asia against polio starts on Friday.
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The biggest polio eradication campaign ever launched in Africa kicked off simultaneously in 23 Sub-Saharan countries Friday, with the goal of immunizing 80 million children under five over the next four days, organizers said.
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Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo administered polio droplets to a child to reassure residents the vaccine was safe as a new effort to eradicate the crippling disease was kicked off.
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GENEVA Aug. 24, 2004 - Polio has spread to new countries in Africa, further setting back global attempts to wipe out the disease, UN officials said Tuesday.
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Polio eradication efforts get back on track in African nation after hostility to treatment reignited disease.
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Polio has re-emerged in Guinea and Mali, countries that had previously freed themselves of the disease. The finding raises fears that a major polio epidemic could hit west and central Africa.
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Nigeria has launched fresh efforts to stamp out polio as part of a campaign that aims to immunise more than 80 million children in 23 African states.
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Africa could soon face a major polio outbreak, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). For the first time in five years, Guinea and Mali have reported polio cases.
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CAMPAIGNERS hope that shocking statistics on the global epidemic of heart disease and strokes will prompt countries to take action to reduce risks to health.
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Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia will   vaccinate nearly 3 million children against polio in a bid to   stamp out the paralyzing disease, which has re-emerged in the   Horn of Africa, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.
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With Africa lagging behind in global development goals and rich countries cutting aid, leaders of multilateral financial institutions decided on Friday it was time to mobilize resources to reduce extreme poverty on the continent.