Distrust hurts effort to end polio in India
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GAYA, India -- Gearing up for the final push to wipe out polio, India has run into a hurdle in an eastern state, where poor, conservative communities are refusing to give polio drops to children because they distrust the medicine and its distributors.
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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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A state-owned company's sales of vibrating prophylactics has some Indian politicians accusing the national government of immorality
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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, 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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JAKARTA, Indonesia -- As relief officials struggle to reach homeless tsunami survivors, another concern is quietly making the rounds of donor meetings: the threat of corruption.
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The Independent Blood Council remains concerned that Australians could have contracted the &#39;monkey virus&#39; from polio vaccinations in the 1950s and 60s.
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India&#39;s worst chemical disaster in history continues to haunt citizens twenty years later. More than a hundred thousand Indians still suffer from health problems.
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Polio, which can paralyse small children, has become the latest threat to refugees already struggling with famine and disease in the camps of Darfur.
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FARIDABAD, India -- Ashok Gupta's modest plastic-packaging factory is the oldest in town, and its age shows. The root of all his problems is electricity.
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India hopes to shame its citizens out of spitting and littering at tourist sites with an advertising campaign showing schoolchildren looking dismayed and disapproving of the dirty habit.
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India will launch a "massive" and   "intensive" polio immunization drive in November covering over   100 million young children, officials said on Thursday.
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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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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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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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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 health officials are alarmed by growing HIV/Aids infection rates in two key northern states.