Inoculation Teams Deploy in Nigeria
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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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British and Kenyan scientists have developed a new treatment for the killer disease malaria.
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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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A week-long effort to immunise 300 million children in Africa and Asia against polio starts on Friday.
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At least 75 million US dollars has been pledged to support the health sector in Nigeria, Africa&#39;s most populous country, in an effort to hasten the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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There is progress toward a vaccine to prevent malaria. Researchers have been testing an experimental vaccine in Mozambique. This is what they have found: In a group of one thousand six hundred
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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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Scientists are one step closer to a vaccine against one of the world&#39;s most devastating diseases. Malaria causes more than 300 million cases of illness
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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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WASHINGTON: The World Health Organisation, Doctors Without Borders and other agencies have begun rushing medical teams, generators and other equipment to provide safe drinking water and sanitation and reduce threats of infectious-disease outbreaks in the
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The World Health Organization launched a new global effort on Monday to find a vaccine against malaria, which infects up to 500 million people each year, and the donors to pay for it.
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The number of new polio cases in  Nigeria jumped by 36 percent to 1,111 last year but sustained  immunization should help cut incidence of the disease in 2007,  a World Health Organization official said on Monday.
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Contractors get a boost from a major west African project.
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A general strike in Nigeria has made it easier to reach and vaccinate 35 million children in the country against polio, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday.
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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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A multi-billion dollar lawsuit brought by the government against major tobacco firms is to open in Nigeria.
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Residents of Kibera, a slum in Kenya&#39;s capital, Nairobi, are set to benefit from the launch on Thursday of a new health centre that will provide treatment for HIV/AIDS and other illnesses.