India plans huge anti-polio push
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India announces a major drive to contain polio after an outbreak of the virus in its most populous state.
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NEW DELHI: Thousands took to the streets across India Wednesday to mark World AIDS Day as the government announced a huge media blitz to make the entire billion-plus population aware of the pandemic in six months.
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At least 700,000 health workers fanned out across Bangladesh on Saturday to immunise 24 million children against polio in a bid to tackle a surprise resurgence by the disease, an official said.
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KANO, Nigeria  - Political leaders and health  workers launched a drive Saturday to immunize 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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India's efforts to eradicate polio nationwide have hit a hurdle in eastern Bihar state where poor, conservative communities are refusing to have their children immunized because they don't trust the medicine or its distributors.
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Hundreds of thousands of health workers and volunteers fanned out across Bangladesh on Sunday in an effort to immunize 24 million children against polio after the disease recently resurfaced.
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India said on Wednesday it would use  tax revenue generated by a booming economy to raise spending on  health, education and its flagging farm sector to improve  living conditions for hundreds of millions of the poor.
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India's government announces an ambitious plan to provide millions of poor people with social security.
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Bangladeshi health officials plan to immunise 24 million children under five against polio in a mammoth nationwide operation Saturday after fresh outbreaks, an official said.
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The global campaign to eradicate polio kicked off its second phase in west Africa amid unrest in Ivory Coast that could impede efforts to vaccinate 80 million children in sub-Saharan Africa under age five.
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Nairobi - About 80 million children in 23 countries will start receiving vaccinations on Friday in the largest polio immunisation campaign ever in Africa, the World Health Organisation said.
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Africa could be on the verge of a major polio outbreak, the World Health Organization warns.
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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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Authorities in India's Kerala state are battling a fever outbreak that has claimed dozens of lives.
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Africa would today launch the largest ever immunisation campaign aimed at reaching 80 million children in 23 countries. In a massive effort to combat the Polio epidemic which risks paralysing children for
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Health workers have begun a drive across Bangladesh to immunise 24 million children under five against polio to combat the crippling virus that has staged a comeback in the South Asian nation.
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The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) called on Wednesday for a new drive to stamp out polio, saying it was probably now or never for ridding the world of the paralyzing disease that attacks mainly children.