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Campaigners and Health Officials Fight Against Polio in Namibia

In Namibia people are affected by polio and as of now 15 people have died. Hence the gover...pate in the vaccination program. The first case of polio was detected on May 6 and the government was very keen on eradicating polio and decided to conduct v...

Immunization Programme In Bangladesh A Success

... out within five weeks of official confirmation of polio in the country. UNICEF Bangladesh Representative Louis-Georges Arsenault said "These special NIDs speak volumes on how a well-timed, well-orchestrated and well-designed response mechanism can contain the spread and resurgence of a serious health h...

Immunization Programme In Bangladesh A Success

... out within five weeks of official confirmation of polio in the country. UNICEF Bangladesh Representative Louis-Georges Arsenault said "These special NIDs speak volumes on how a well-timed, well-orchestrated and well-designed response mechanism can contain the spread and resurgence of a serious health h...

India to Spend Rs.10 bn on Polio Eradication Strategies

...hursday approved Rs.10.39 billion for implementing polio eradication strategies during 2006-07 besides Rs.2...llion for corrective surgery and rehabilitation of polio victims. // "The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved funds of Rs.10.39 billi...

Angola To Launch A Massive Health Protection Campaign For The Children

...ion children//, under 5-years of age from measles, polio and malaria. The representatives of the WHO, U.N. children's agency UNICEF along with the health ministry of Angola, had announced in Luanda their aim to reduce Angola's infant mortality rate that is considered as one of the world's highest, by at ...

Anti-Polio Drive to be Stepped up in Ghaziabad

... asked medical officials in the district to ensure polio drops are given to every child in villages of Loni...ave spent around Rs 6 crore in eight months on the polio immunisation programme in the district. Source:PTI News...

Japan's Support for Polio Eradication in India

...illion (456 million yen) for the intensified pulse polio immunisation (IIPI) campaign// in India this year,...vaccine through UNICEF to be used during the pulse polio rounds for West Bengal and northeastern states.' Ramadoss said that Japan had been supporting Indi...

Muslim Leaders Urge Community to Join Anti-Polio Drive

...ppeal to the community to participate in the pulse polio campaign to prevent children from becoming a prey ...t appeal asking the people of the community to get polio drops administered to children under five years of age. Meerut Divisonal Commisioner Dev Dutt today...

Medical College Admission Denied for Physically Disabled Student

...onflicting figures. "Her left leg is affected by polio from childhood and she has already become totally invalid and is unable to move with out a strider," Nanda said sidestepping the issue. Susmita has always been a bright student. Last year, she got a first division in her Class 12 examination. She...

Disabled Girl Urges Kalam to Intervene Against the Denial of Admission

...medical college here because she was stricken with polio and certified with 87 percent disability, has urged President// A.P.J. Abdul Kalam to intervene. Susmita Haro, a topper in the Scheduled Tribe category of the state joint entrance examination, was denied admission to the VSS Medical College in Burl...

Polio Cases on Rise in India: Indian Government

There has been a sharp rise in polio cases in the country with the number almost doubli... in cases," the minister said. He said since the polio surveillance campaign started in India in 1997, the number of cases reported across the country was ...

Survivors of Childhood Polio Do Well Decades Later As They Age

...al aging. “Other researchers have suggested that polio is a more aggressive condition later in life, but ...d lead study researcher. “Our results suggest that polio survivors may not age any differently than those in the normal population -- they’re not doing too b...

Government has Set up a Special Committee to Curb Polio Cases

...t has set up a special committee to check cases of polio that have more than doubled since 2005.// Till th...oblem to the villagers and how they can administer polio drops to their kids," the minister said. Experts say about 40 million children under five years ne...

Fresh Polio Cases Reported from Chandigarh, Haryana

...ars.// Adjoining Haryana too has reported three polio cases - two in Sonepat district and one in Faridabad. One polio case was reported from Kurukshetra last month. Health officials said here Tuesday that the polio-a...

Vaccine Quality 'blamed' for Polio Menace in UP

...sh Family Welfare Minister Ahmad Hasan Friday said polio vaccines have proved ineffective in the state in tackling the disease among children.// "We have grave suspicion about the quality of the vaccine, otherwise there is no reason why it should prove ineffective in so many cases. "Hasan told reporters ...

1.8 mn Delhi Children to Receive Anti-polio Drops

...ational capital Sunday even as Delhi reported //no polio case for the second consecutive year. Kick-starti...t Saturday said the state would continue to remain polio free but she feared spreading of the virus from neighbouring Uttar Pradesh. "Not even a single cas...

Indians might be spreading Polio

...is one of the countries with the largest number of polio cases. According to a senior UNICEF official, ther...ng the disease. "Investigation of strains of the polio virus and their genetic sequencing carried out in the African countries of Congo and Mozambique has ...

Polio Outbreak in India due to Vaccine Failure, Says Expert

...ore: A top virologist has blamed the resurgence of polio in India on "unscientific" policy and "inadequacy" of the oral polio vaccine (OPV) used// for its eradication. Polio cases have risen to 297 so far this year - four-an...

Polio cases in Maharashtra

The two cases of polio in Maharashtra have crashed the efforts of the state to become India’s polio-free state. // The health officials on a polio-eradication drive have detected a 9-year old girl with poliovirus.The girl, Nazali Sheikh from Govandi was found to be affec...

Polio Continues to Haunt Madhya Pradesh

... despite the fact that the victim was administered polio drops during five such campaigns conducted in the past. "A fresh polio case has come to light in Bhind district where the pulse polio campaign was undertaken on Sep 10 alo...

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