14 African nations face meningitis epidemic: Red Cross
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Red Cross officials warned Thursday that 14 African countries could face one of the worst meningitis epidemics in recent memory and announced prevention campaigns in the affected areas.
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With more than 1.8 million people living with HIV in Europe and Central Asia, the epidemic poses a serious threat to the region's social and economic stability, according to the Joint United Nations Programme ...
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The spread of polio to Guinea and Mali brings to 12 the number of previously polio-free African countries that have experienced an outbreak.
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Up to 1.8 million people are at risk from cholera, measles, malaria and other killer diseases following major floods across the Horn of Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
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Africa could be on the verge of a major polio outbreak, the World Health Organization warns.
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Some 2.6 billion people in the   world, mainly in Africa and Asia, lack access to basic   sanitation, increasing the risk of diarrhea and other diseases   fatal to children, said a U.N. report released on Thursday.
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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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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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The United Nations warned on Monday of epidemics within days unless health systems in southern Asia can cope after more than 15,500 people were killed and hundreds of thousands left homeless by a giant tsunami.
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JOHANNESBURG, 9 December (IRIN) - The HIV/AIDS pandemic has already created millions of orphans throughout sub-Saharan Africa, but the worst is yet to come, warned Per Engebak, UN Children&#39;s Fund (UNICEF) regional director for Eastern and Southern Africa.
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A vaccine targeting a deadly strain of meningitis proved to be safe and highly effective in protecting African children, researchers said on Friday, raising hope that it may help prevent epidemics that afflict many African countries.
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Africa needs to nearly triple the number of its health workers if it is to reverse plummeting life expectancies and combat pandemics of disease.
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A major polio epidemic in West and  Central Africa is inevitable in coming months, but the disease  could be eradicated worldwide next year by mass immunizations,  the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
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Polio has spread to two more African countries where it had been eradicated, Guinea and Mali, highlighting the risk of a major outbreak across west and central Africa, international campaigners said on Tuesday.
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GENEVA -- The UN health agency yesterday sought to ease fears of a major polio outbreak in Saudi Arabia fueled by Islamic pilgrims from African nations that are still in the grip of the disease.
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The death of a young Nigerian woman from bird flu has focused attention on the risk of such human infections in West Africa, where social habits and weak health and veterinary services make the region vulnerable, experts say.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia  - Africa must brace itself for an AIDS time bomb as 8,000 people are infected with HIV a day in the region worst hit by the pandemic, the United Nations warned Thursday.