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Nigerian community leaders help track mobile populations

The community leaders, or ‘Hardos’, among the Fulani people in Katsina State, Nigeria, have come together under the Myetti Allah organization to help vaccinate the hardest-to-reach children against polio...

1 September, 2011

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Measles outbreak reported in Zanzibar

The first measles outbreak in five years on Zanzibar’s main island has prompted health officials to mount a two-day emergency immunization

31 August, 2011

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Somalia: Cholera hits crowded Mogadishu camps

Fears are mounting that a cholera epidemic could spread rapidly among the hundreds of thousands of people

25 August, 2011

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UN urges rapid response to Somali refugee measles outbreak

The United Nations voiced alarm at the plight of Somali refugees in south-eastern Ethiopia following an outbreak of suspected measles, and called for urgent action to assist an already vulnerable population.

11 August, 2011

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Measles Initiative vaccinates one billion children in first decade

The Measles Initiative has helped vaccinate one billion children in more than 60 developing countries since 2001

8 August, 2011

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Nigerian parents who refuse polio vaccines risk jail time

Officials in the northern Nigerian state of Kano say hundreds of parents are refusing to get their children immunized against the crippling disease, polio.

8 August, 2011

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UNICEF tasks Nigeria on polio

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) calls upon traditional and religious leaders in Nigeria to mobilize and educate their subjects on the need to tackle polio,

21 July, 2011

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WHO warns millions at risk of cholera and measles in Ethiopia

Five million people are at risk of cholera in drought-hit Ethiopia

18 July, 2011

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Cholera and measles kill hundreds, while polio reappears in Congo

Outbreaks of measles and cholera in parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo have killed hundreds of people, with thousands more infected,

15 July, 2011

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Uganda announces elimination of Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus

Uganda today announced that it has eliminated maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT). The country is the 20th to do so since 2000.

15 July, 2011

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