Efforts to eradicate polio falter
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JOHANNESBURG -- The global effort to eradicate polio will not meet its deadline to stop transmission of the virus by the end of the year, a World Health Organization official acknowledged yesterday, citing the spread of cases from northern Nigeria.
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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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The troubled 19-year-old campaign to eradicate polio is celebrating recent progress and an unexpected infusion of cash, but experts are coming to realize that they will not be able to end the expensive and laborious efforts to control the virus anytime soon.
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TORKHAM, Pakistan-Afghan Border  - Shrugging off the danger of militant violence, Pakistan and Afghanistan on Tuesday launched a drive to eradicate polio from the rugged tribal lands on both sides of their border.
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The World Health Organisation said it will redouble efforts to vaccinate Sudanese children against polio following an outbreak of the disease in the war-torn western region of Darfur.
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The troubled 19-year-old campaign to eradicate polio is celebrating recent progress and an unexpected infusion of cash, but experts are coming to realize they will not be able to end the expensive and laborious efforts to control the virus anytime soon.
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Nigeria, which accounts for nearly three  quarters of polio cases worldwide, is determined to halt the  spread of the crippling disease by immunizing all its children,  its health minister declared on Thursday.
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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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Polio, which can paralyze small children, has become the latest threat to refugees already struggling with famine and disease in the camps of Darfur.
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More than 8 million Sudanese children  will be vaccinated against polio, health officials said on  Monday, following the country's first case of the disease in  more than two years.
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Nigeria's president kicked off a mammoth effort to immunize 80 million children against polio in 23 African countries, described by international health experts as "the single-largest public health campaign" in history to wipe out the disease.
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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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Health authorities in north India struggling with an outbreak of polio are asking Muslim leaders to support immunization drives, officials said Wednesday.
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Health workers met scattered refusals from parents Monday as medical teams deployed door-to-door in this largely Muslim Nigerian state, rushing to inoculate 3.8 children against polio after Muslim leaders lifted their boycott of the vaccine.
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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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While a locally produced vaccine enlightens the battle with AIDS, the lack of proper knowledge on prevention does little to help curb its fast spread in the country.
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Measures to tackle rising public health problems are being scrapped or postponed due to lack of funds, health chiefs say.