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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India will wipe out polio in the next three years, the country's health minister said on Tuesday, despite a surge in cases this year that has raised concern abroad.
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The Indian government is to hold an emergency meeting to discuss an outbreak of dengue fever in the country.
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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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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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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.
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Indian health officials said Monday they aim to vaccinate about 95 million children against polio this week as part of a drive to eradicate the disease, which made a comeback last year.
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India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, the last three Asian countries where polio is endemic, are on track to halt its spread by year-end after halving cases in 2004, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday.
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Health officials in the Indian capital launch a drive against dengue fever after 11 deaths in two weeks.
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India's government announces an ambitious plan to provide millions of poor people with social security.
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The Indian government plans to set up a series of orphanages to raise unwanted baby girls in a bid to halt the widespread practice of aborting female fetuses, according to a senior government official.
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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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Nigeria&#39;s president has kicked off a massive effort to immunize 80 million children against polio in 23 African nations. President Olusegun Obsanajo led officials from across the region Saturday in giving
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LONDON -- Nearly 20 years ago, the World Health Organization and its partners launched an ambitious program to eradicate polio by the end of the millennium. That deadline passed and another was missed in 2005 _ and polio still strikes about 2,000 people a year, mostly children.
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Bangladesh begins giving polio vaccines to 24 million children in a fresh effort to eradicate the disease.
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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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Uganda will next month launch a nationwide drive to vaccinate nearly three million children against polio in a bid to prevent a feared outbreak in Sudan from spreading, the health ministry said.