Sudan polio campaign targets 8 million children
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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 Nigerian president leads new efforts  to stamp out polio as part of a big campaign planned for the region.
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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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The United Nations said on Monday it  was calling for a halt to fighting across Sudan this month to  cover a three-day campaign to vaccinate people against polio  and stave off a feared epidemic.
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Up to 10,000 people, many of them children, are dying each month from disease and the effects of violence in Darfur camps despite a big international aid effort, the World Health Organization said Monday.
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More than one billion children, half of the world's population of children, suffer from poverty, violent conflict and the scourge of AIDS, the United Nations Children's Fund said in its annual report.
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REPORT FINDINGS: The number of people affected by the conflict in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region has grown to 2 million, and there are strong indications of war crimes &quot;on a large and systematic scale.
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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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KANO, Nigeria  - 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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Afghan elders have given safe passage to thousands of volunteer vaccinators immunizing children against polio in Afghanistan's violent south, a region health workers haven't worked in for months, UNICEF said Saturday.
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New vaccines have sharply reduced the  number of children paralyzed by polio and raised hopes that a  $5 billion campaign to wipe it out may be close to success, a  top public health official said in an interview.
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CAIRO, Dec. 27 -- Malnutrition has increased among children in Darfur over the past year despite a massive humanitarian aid effort in the war-torn Sudanese region, according to a U.N. report obtained Thursday.
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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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An outbreak of Rift Valley Fever in Sudan has spread, killing 84 people out of 228 known cases, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday.
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Indonesia has launched a campaign to inoculate 14 million children against measles which kills an Indonesian child every 20 minutes, or 30,000 a year.
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Eighty-two people have died in a cholera epidemic in the Republic of Congo, according to figures from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
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The United Nations Children's Fund  (UNICEF) on Wednesday appealed for $576.1 million to help  millions of children in countries in crisis, ranging from Sudan  to Ethiopia and Angola.