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TB levels in London as high as those in some African countries

A new survey by Britain’s National Health Service shows that tuberculosis infection rates in some London neighborhoods match those in found in African countries where the disease is endemic.

29 February, 2012

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Yellow fever outbreak in Ghana

The Ministry of Health, Ghana has notified WHO of a yellow fever (YF) outbreak occurring in three districts located in the mid-western part of the country.

8 February, 2012

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Major push launched to stop 10 NTDs by 2020

The world’s leading pharmaceutical companies, the US, UK and UAE governments, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank and other global health organisations announced a new, coordinated push to...

1 February, 2012

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Why polio is so hard to eliminate – Chad

Poor-quality emergency immunization campaigns and low routine polio immunization coverage are helping the polio virus to spread in Chad,

1 February, 2012

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African vaccine could help end malaria

Dividing her days between treating malaria in Kenya’s coastal regions and administering the latest malaria vaccine prototype, Dr. Patricia Njuguna has high hopes for preventing a disease that annually claims more...

18 January, 2012

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Congo aims to vaccinate 1.7 million children against measles

Children are being targeted for immunization in health campaigns in affected regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

22 December, 2011

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Malaria deaths drop but future still uncertain

Malaria mortality rates have fallen by more than 25% globally since 2000, and by 33% in the WHO African Region, according to the World Malaria Report 2011, issued by the World Health Organization.

14 December, 2011

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UN seeks urgent funds for ongoing Congo cholera outbreak

The United Nations humanitarian arm warned today that $5.5 million is urgently needed from donors to combat an outbreak of cholera that has infected more than 17,000 people in the Congo.

23 November, 2011

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Computational modeling can help plan vaccine introduction

Proper planning before the introduction of new vaccines into a developing country’s active immunization program could prevent storage problems and transportation bottlenecks

21 November, 2011

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Thousands of Kenyan children to be immunized amid polio outbreak

Health officials are on high alert after three cases of the Wild Polio Virus Type 1 were recently recorded in western Kenya.

22 September, 2011

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