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Nigeria: Bauchi - Polio Immunization Suffers Setback  -  Feb 9, 2008
AllAfrica.com,Despite the outbreak of communicable diseases across the states and government's effort to control the situation, inadequate vaccines and comments from

2nd Phase Pulse Polio Immunization Campaign launched by Himachal  -  Feb 10, 2008
myHimachal,Dhumal launched the second phase of the pulse polio immunization campaign under which about 7.32 lakhs children in the age group of 0-5 are to be

Chandigarh Admin to launch Pulse Polio Immunization Drive of Feb 10  -  Feb 8, 2008
PunjabNewsline.com,CHANDIGARH: The Chandigarh Administration will be carrying out Pulse Polio Immunization Drive in UT, Chandigarh on National Immunization Day on February 10

Rise in polio cases, WHO concerned  -  Feb 11, 2008
Times of India,...concern over the resurgence of polio virus in the district and warned officials that any laxity in the polio immunization drive will not be tolerated.

Google.org gives Rotary $3.5 million to help end polio worldwide  -  Feb 19, 2008
openPR (press release),The grant will directly support polio immunization activities carried out by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), a partnership spearheaded by

Pulse Polio Immunization  -  Feb 6, 2008
E-Pao.net,Imphal, February 06: The Intensified Pulse Polio Immunization Programme will also be held at Wel-Baby Clinic of the Department of Paediatrics in the OPD

Manipur on verge of polio eradication with no fresh cases  -  Feb 10, 2008
KanglaOnline,Manipur conducted the second round of pulse polio immunization programme throughout the state today. Administration of polio vaccine to a total number of

Massive polio immunization campaign protects Yemen’s children  -  Jan 22, 2008
Yemen Observer,The most recent Polio National Immunization Campaign was conducted from 15 to 17 December 2007. The campaign was organized as a preventive measure in all

UN: World Coming Close To Wiping Out Polio - Total Eradication Is ...  -  Feb 8, 2008
AHNIn Afghanistan and Pakistan, the quality of polio immunization campaigns vary, covering anywhere between 75 percent to 95 percent.

Dealing with Polio scourge in Nigeria  -  Feb 7, 2008
Business Day,We must begin to rebuild the lost trust in Polio immunization exercises at the community level as well as focusing on the very young that are not often

Pakistan to vaccinate over 3 million children in anti-poliodrive  -  Jan 21, 2008
Xinhua,21 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan will launch a three-day country-wide "Polio Immunization" campaign Tuesday to vaccinate over 32 million children, a cabinet minister

Over 32 Million Kids In Pakistan To Receive Anti-Polio Vaccine  -  Jan 21, 2008
AHNAn estimated 32 million Pakistani children will receive an anti-polio vaccine as Islamabad launched a three-day, nationwide "Polio Immunization" plan.

Barbara Groner helps bring water, medicine to Nigeria  -  Jan 25, 2008
Dowagiac Daily News,...says Barbara Groner of Dowagiac, who as a Rotarian has traveled abroad extensively, including to Nigeria, Africa, since polio immunization in 2002.

Google gives Rotary US$3.5 million to help end polio  -  Feb 14, 2008
Rotary International,The grant and matching funds will directly support polio immunization activities carried out by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI),

Health Action in Crises - Highlights No. 195 – 11 to 18 Feb 2008  -  Feb 18, 2008
ReliefWeb (press release),Polio immunization activities planned for 23-26 February are postponed due the ongoing insecurity. In the East, WHO donated three emergency health kits to

Services for Jeanne Meigs are Thursday, Feb. 14  -  Feb 12, 2008
Coon Rapids ECM Publishers,She was active in Macalester Alumni Assoc., volunteered with polio immunization in India and Africa, was first female moderator of Falcon Heights church,

The pain of prevention  -  Jan 24, 2008
Glens Falls Post-Star,By Erin DeMuth Judd, To order copies of staff-produced photos from The Post-Star, please visit http://reprints.poststar.com/. From a kid's prospective,

THE IMPACT OF NRHM HAS BEEN FELT ACROSS STATES IN THE FORM OF ...  -  Jan 30, 2008
Press Information Bureau (press release),In both these states there has been an intensification of the programme by increasing the frequency of polio immunization campaigns during 2007.

Sudan: Humanitarian Action in Darfur, weekly bulletin no. 02, 24 ...  -  Jan 24, 2008
ReliefWeb (press release),Reports from the State Ministry of Health (SMoH) indicate that the UNICEF and World Health Organization (WHO)-supported polio immunization campaign in North

Training programme for  -  Jan 25, 2008
The Statesman,Local NGOs who were a part of the pulse polio immunization drive will also be engaged for this job. According to the Malda CMOH, these health workers will

Pinole Rotary presents annual awards  -  Jan 26, 2008
Contra Costa Times,That same year, Lawliss and his daughter joined volunteers in Ghana who helped with Rotary's worldwide polio-immunization program.

26000 children below five die every day  -  Jan 25, 2008
Gorkhapatra,It is said the availability of community based health service, and polio immunization and distribution of Vitamin A in the presence of the health workers

Pulse Polio Immunization Campaign targets 7.32 lakhs children in ...  -  Dec 18, 2007
myHimachal,...the age group of 0-5 will be administered pulse polio drops in 1st and 2nd rounds of Intensified Pulse Polio Immunization Campaign in Himachal Pradesh.

Nigeria: 40000 Children Get Polio Immunization in Birnin Kudu  -  Dec 5, 2007
AllAfrica.com,About 40000 children in Birnin Kudu area of Jigawa State were immunized against the polio virus in the just concluded immunization exercise.

Over 7-lakh kids to be covered under polio campaign  -  Dec 22, 2007
myHimachal,He elaborated that the Pulse Polio Immunization Campaign was started in the year 1995 while Accute Flaccid Paralyses (AFP) Surveillance was started in 1997.

INDIA AND GERMANY SIGN AGREEMENTS FOR DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE ...  -  Dec 20, 2007
Press Information Bureau (press release),In addition, Loan and Financing Agreement for ninth tranche of German assistance amounting to Euro 50 million for Pulse Polio Immunization Programme of the

National polio campaign kicks off  -  Dec 12, 2007
Yemen Times,A 3-day nation wide polio immunization campaign kicks off across Yemen from December 15 to 17 to save all children from polio as part of enhanced national

Alarming rise in polio cases in Bihar in 2007  -  Dec 14, 2007
Khabrein.info,A top official associated with the multi-million rupees polio immunization drive in the state said that battle against polio is far from over in Bihar.

Anti-polio campaign gets $200 million infusion  -  Nov 27, 2007
International Herald Tribune,Rotary officials said Monday that they will transfer the Gates money to the World Health Organization and Unicef next year for use in polio immunization

Burma Mobilizes To Protect 7M Kids Against Polio  -  Nov 25, 2007
Scoop.co.nz,Midwife Daw Kyin Nu is braving the cold rain in the hilly regions of Shan State, Myanmar, as she goes house to house to vaccinate children under the age of

Sudan: Humanitarian Action in Darfur, weekly bulletin no. 17  -  Nov 29, 2007
ReliefWeb (press release),The second round of the 17th polio immunization campaign was completed and results are currently being compiled. Plans for Jebel Marra have been finalised

Boost in battle against polio  -  Dec 4, 2007
Dorset Echo,...distributed by Rotary Foundation through grants to the World Health Organization and UNICEF in direct support of polio immunization activities in 2008.

Gates and Rotary Together Pledge $200 Million to Eradicate Polio  -  Nov 27, 2007
Earthtimes,Club say the Gates donation will be transferred in 2008 to UNICEF and the World Health Organization and will be used in polio immunization programs.

UNICEF Immunises 100000 Children And Women In Camps In Southern ...  -  Dec 11, 2007
Medical News Today (press release),Approximately 47600 children under five and 56000 women who live in camps along the Mogadishu-Afgoye corridor will receive a package of critical life saving

Sudan: Humanitarian Action in Darfur, weekly bulletin no. 19  -  Dec 13, 2007
ReliefWeb (press release),Polio immunization campaigns continued in South Darfur, with 35000 children reached by vaccinators in the Jebel Marra region.

Zimbabwe’s Child Health Days help to boost child survival  -  Nov 29, 2007
Organisation de la Presse Africaine (Communiqués de presse),By Tsitsi Singizi UNICEF and partners are today announcing a dramatic reduction in worldwide measles mortality rates since 2000, especially in Africa.

Nigeria may slide back to debtor nation – FG warns  -  Dec 18, 2007
Daily Sun,Ministry of Health to fund the November round of polio immunization as well as the N766.6 million for the repairs of the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos.

• PHOTO: Sun News Publishing  -  Dec 11, 2007
Daily Sun,He maintained that NANS had painstakingly followed her campaigns in favour of girl-child education, polio immunization for children, anti-HIV/AIDS campaigns

Rotary: Volunteers visit Ethiopia on humanitarian mission  -  Oct 18, 2007
Jimma Times,During Ethiopia’s nationwide polio immunization campaign (18-21 October), the visiting volunteers will join fellow Rotarians in Ethiopia, along with a vast

Star power: For cause or for fame?  -  Oct 19, 2007
NDTV.com,HIV/AIDS, cancer, polio immunization, cruelty to animals and climate change all social issue come attached with a star these days.

Nigeria finds polio cases linked to vaccine viruses; experts ...  -  Sep 27, 2007
The Canadian PressSeveral states in Northern Nigeria suspended polio immunization efforts for nearly a year in 2003-04 in response to vaccine safety rumours that led parents

Children are the target  -  Oct 19, 2007
Advertiser 24,POLIO is an infectious disease caused by the polio virus which can strike at any age, but typically affects children under three.

Japan donates polio vaccine storage facility to Nigeria  -  Oct 4, 2007
AFPKano state stalled polio immunization for 13 months between 2003 and 2004 following claims by radical Islamic clerics and some Muslim doctors that the

Address to the Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean  -  Oct 20, 2007
World Health Organization,Last month, the Taliban Shura announced the full participation of Taliban-controlled areas in polio immunization campaigns. This gave the September polio

Editorial: Immunizations are important for all children, community  -  Oct 4, 2007
Herald Times Reporter,Most parents of young children weren't alive when childhood diseases could sweep through schools leaving some victims with devastating permanent damage,

Women frankly talk about gynaecological cases  -  Sep 26, 2007
Gorkhapatra,The trainings on Vitamin A, polio immunization and gynecological awareness are organized every month. Earlier, it was difficult to arrange the place for

LVSU appeals to various Departments-  -  15 Sep 2007
Nagaland Post,What I witnessed was that, when there is Polio Immunization programme, one compounder comes and vanishes the next day. The other occasion I saw was,

No polio immunization, no Haj; says Saudi government  -  Sep 13, 2007
Merinews,Roughly 50 lakh children in each phase were consumed polio immunization doses in Assam in a series of three. Acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance

Somalia: An Officer Gunned Down  -  Sep 11, 2007
AllAfrica.com,The victim, Farah Warsme, has been WHO officer for Polio Immunization in Cabud Waq Township, was shot dead, on Tuesday morning by gunmen, as he was closing

Commentary: Increased DOH budget for expanded immunization project  -  Aug 23, 2007
Philippine Information Agency,DPT (Diptheria, Petusis and Tetanus), measles and Hepatitis B. Even as the President personally administered polio immunization vaccine drops (patak) to

RISE IN NUMBER OF POLIO CASES  -  Aug 29, 2007
Press Information Bureau (press release),...quality Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) surveillance and assists the Government in microplanning, training and monitoring of polio immunization campaign.

EXPENDITURE INCURRED ON MALARIA AND POLIO  -  Aug 29, 2007
Press Information Bureau (press release),The details of funds allocated and expenditure incurred under National Vector Borne Diseases Control Programme (NVBDCP) and Pulse Polio Immunization (PPI)

DA eyes potential of malunggay to reduce malnutrition  -  Aug 27, 2007
News Today Online,Petusis and Tetanus), measles and Hepatitis B. The President personally administered polio immunization vaccine drops (patak) to four babies aged six to

22 - PGMA wants to ensure brighter future for Pinoys  -  Aug 22, 2007
Balita.org,Oral Polio Vaccine, DPT (Diptheria, Pertusis, and Tetanus), measles, and Hepatitis B. The President personally administered polio immunization vaccine

Government of Japan boosts efforts to reduce child mortality in Sudan  -  Aug 28, 2007
Al-Bawaba,The Government of Japan has continued its commitment to reducing child mortality in Sudan, with the contribution tomorrow of US$5 million (¥596 million) to

RSG urges support for breast feeding  -  Aug 17, 2007
The Tide,Mr. Stanley Osum advised parents to take advantage of the on-going polio immunization exercise to present their children for immunisation.

National Polio Immunization Campaign Starts  -  Aug 7, 2007
Sudanese Media Center,An estimated, under 5 years old numbering five million children in Northern Sudan States will be targeted in a special round of polio immunization which

Dispelling Muslims’ misgivings on polio immunization programme  -  Jun 27, 2007
Khabrein.info,Zubair has worked closely with UNICEF in its polio immunization programme in UP covering most parts of western UP. This correspondent too was taken aback on

Ethiopia: Govt and UN Partners Target 14 Million Children in Polio ...  -  Jun 11, 2007
AllAfrica.com,A United Nations-backed polio immunization drive conducted by the Ethiopian Government is seeking to protect more than 14 million children under five there

Government embarks on special polio campaign targeting 12.2 ...  -  Jun 17, 2007
Associated Press of Pakistan,ISLAMABAD, Jun 17 (APP): The government and its partners will launch a large-scale anti-polio immunization campaign in 40 high-risk districts,

District 11 Immunization Information  -  Jul 2, 2007
Hispania News,The number of DTP and polio immunization may vary depending on the age of the child when the shots were given. 2. 2007 Colorado State Law requires that

Government of Japan provides US$4.2 million to support maternal ...  -  Jun 10, 2007
ReliefWeb (press release),...advocacy; public information and social mobilization; training of volunteers; vaccine and immunization logistics; door-to-door polio immunization;

Rich Muslim countries urged to help fight polio in OIC states  -  Jun 15, 2007
International Herald Tribune,...spread AIDS and was not halal — or did not conform to Islamic guidelines — caused a setback for the polio immunization drive in Nigeria in 2003.

WB approves $451m for social sector development  -  Jun 8, 2007
Daily Times,...intensification of eradication efforts, including a coordinated response to misperceptions about polio immunization in parts of the country.

Administration Prepares for Anti-Polio Campaign  -  Jun 29, 2007
Patna Daily,...in Patna on Thursday, said the administration would launch the 7th polio immunization campaign on July 1 during which thousands of children across the

Clerics and administration join hands to check spread of polio in ...  -  Jun 29, 2007
Khabrein.info,Rakesh Chandra, CDO asked the ulama and imams to make polio immunization programme a success and make Rampur a polio free district. The meeting was attended

Afghanistan hopes to eradicate polio in two years  -  Jun 16, 2007
Indian Muslims,About 7.4 million children in Afghanistan needed to be immunized against polio and education programs on polio immunization is also needed, as few families

Relief Bulletin: Weekly Humanitarian Highlights in Ethiopia 11 Jun ...  -  Jun 11, 2007
ReliefWeb (press release),...house-to-house polio immunization campaign on 8 June. The campaign targets 14.1 million children under the age of five across the country.

UN: UNITED NATIONS BRIEFING & TV:- MONDAY, 11 JUNE 2007  -  Jun 11, 2007
MaximsNews.com,...with the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund, is conducting a four-day, house-to-house polio immunization campaign.

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