Afghan Peace Day push for polio vaccinations
681552
Health workers began immunising thousands of Afghan children against polio Wednesday, using a push for peace to access areas where unrest has prevented immunisation and led to new cases of the disease.
63831
Experts met in London Tuesday to discuss how to make a cervical cancer vaccine available to women in poor countries who need it most. The two-day meeting was being attended by some 60 representatives from public health agencies, pharmaceutical companies, non-governmental organizations and philanthropic foundations to try to accelerate the developing world's access to the vaccine.
739368
U.N. and Afghan medics were airlifted to a remote province in central Afghanistan to vaccinate children against whooping cough after 25 youngsters died of the infectious disease, officials said Monday.
750310
ABUJA, Nigeria  - 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.
685238
Bangladesh has completed an emergency vaccination drive to immunize two million children against polio in a southeastern region close to Myanmar, officials said on Sunday.
526471
Angola began the second phase of a public health drive to vaccinate five million children aged under five against polio, a joint statement by the World Health Organisation and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said.
297408
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
340769
Health ministers from the most seriously affected countries in Africa say they can stop polio's spread by the end of this year by intensifying efforts to immunize children.
755103
Health workers have begun a drive across Bangladesh to immunise 24 million children under five against polio to combat the crippling virus that has staged a comeback in the South Asian nation.
76088
A nationwide polio vaccination campaign begins in India as part of the global UN drive to eradicate the virus.
407061
Pakistan and Afghanistan are to set up five checkposts on their common border to screen children for polio and give them vaccine drops in the hope of eliminating one of the world's last reservoirs of the disease.
301319
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.
89833
Paramedics today began vaccinating more than 65,000 refugees in the south as authorities rushed aid to survivors of the tsunami that killed at least 4,400 people in India and left 8,000 missing, many of them feared dead, officials said.
88389
JOHANNESBURG -- Health workers across west and central Africa began a 23-country polio immunization campaign yesterday to reach more than 80 million children in the next several days. The undertaking is part of an international effort to eradicate the disease by next year.
155993
"The program went on as scheduled. Nothing was stopped"  Afghan President Hamid Karzai stresses a point during a press conference with Italian Premier Romano Prodi at Rome's Chigi Palace, premier's office, in this Friday, Feb. via The Macon Telegraph
249274
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.
212110
Polio cases rose by more than half worldwide last year after a vaccine boycott in Nigeria led to a resurgence of the disease across Africa, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.