Category Archives: Child Health

CHAD: Polio Outbreak

Posted on February 5, 2012 by

  DAKAR, 5 February 2012 Poor-quality emergency immunization campaigns and low routine polio immunization coverage are helping the polio virus to spread in Chad, with 132 cases reported in 2011 – five times the number in 2010. More commitment is … Continue reading →

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HEALTH: Pledge to eradicate “neglected” diseases

Posted on February 3, 2012 by

Ten little-known but debilitating diseases will be high on the agenda of the world’s pharmaceutical chiefs, health ministers and donor governments after they pledged their support for a World Health Organization (WHO) initiative to wipe out guinea worm, river blindness, trachoma, leprosy, … Continue reading →

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Measles Immunization:1.7 million Children Targeted

Posted on December 22, 2011 by

NAIROBI, 21 December 2011 (IRIN) – Amid rising measles and polio cases, tens of thousands of 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 … Continue reading →

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YEMEN: Child Polio “Humanitarian Disaster”

Posted on November 13, 2011 by

  Routine immunization of children has dropped by 40 percent in some areas of Yemen, leading to outbreaks of polio and measles and reflecting a growing collapse of public services in a country that is on the brink of a … Continue reading →

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A Real Sophie’s choice: Famine forces mothers to decide which child lives and which dies

Posted on August 18, 2011 by

Wardo Mohamud Yusuf walked for two weeks with her one-year-old daughter on her back and her four-year-old son at her side to flee Somalia’s drought and famine. When the boy collapsed near the end of the journey, she poured some … Continue reading →

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KENYA: Infant AIDS Vaccine Progress

Posted on April 28, 2011 by

Infants enrolled in October 2010 in an HIV vaccine trial are doing well, say researchers in Kenya. “We have already vaccinated 28 infants with the vaccine and up to now we haven’t seen any adverse reaction in any of the … Continue reading →

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MYANMAR: Malarial drug resistance “hotspots” identified

Posted on April 21, 2011 by

Health experts had barely finished one project to contain anti-malarial drug resistance along the Thai-Cambodia border when their attention was drawn to Myanmar, where early warning signs suggest a waning influence of the anti-malarial drug Artemisinin. Malaria is a leading … Continue reading →

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AFGHANISTAN: Kandahar – the Polio Capital

Posted on April 13, 2011 by

Of the 25 polio cases confirmed in Afghanistan in 2010, 11 were in Kandahar. In 2009, 38 cases were reported – 21 in Kandahar; and in 2008, 31 cases, with 12 in Kandahar, according to WHO. In the past three … Continue reading →

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DR Congo: Pneumonia Vaccine

Posted on April 5, 2011 by

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) today added the vaccine against pneumonia to its national immunisation programme in a United Nations-backed initiative to drastically improve the chances of survival for children under the age of five. The expanded programme is … Continue reading →

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KENYA: Maternity Hospital Working Conditions ‘deplorable’

Posted on March 19, 2011 by

A go-slow by nurses at Pumwani Maternity Hospital in Nairobi’s Eastleigh area has exposed serious challenges at Kenya’s largest maternity hospital, with officials calling for urgent intervention to improve services. “Working conditions at the hospital remain deplorable,” Festus Ngare, secretary-general … Continue reading →

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