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afrol News, 17 November - The largest-ever mass vaccination campaign protecting populations from the dangerously infectious yellow fever disease will begin next week across three West African countries, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced today.

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» 20.10.2009 - Africa to accelerate efforts to achieve development goals
» 14.10.2009 - UN calls for renewed efforts to save millions of children from diarrhoea
» 13.10.2009 - UN marks 15th anniversary of the Cairo development conference
» 13.10.2009 - Ethiopia still vulnerable to serious hunger
» 08.10.2009 - Uganda set new sights to reach safe water targets
» 07.10.2009 - USAID awards $387,000 for indigenous health in Ethiopia
» 01.10.2009 - Zim health workers afforded mobility with UN bikes
» 28.09.2009 - Stakeholders discuss post-crisis reproductive health needs of populations
» 24.09.2009 - Diageo commits more funding to West Africa's access to clean water
» 23.09.2009 - UN steps up work in W/Africa and flashes urgent appeal for Ethiopia
» 23.09.2009 - Report calls for HIV-sensitive laws and policing to combat AIDS
» 22.09.2009 - New partnership to keep children free from HIV in Africa
» 17.09.2009 - Project to fight Malaria builds thriving African Mosquito net industry
» 16.09.2009 - WHO warns of possible after floods health disaster in W/Africa
» 11.09.2009 - Global child mortality figures dropping
» 10.09.2009 - Circumcision cost-effective means to prevent HIV - UN report
» 08.09.2009 - More people affected by West African floods
» 08.09.2009 - Diarrhoea threatens to wreaks havoc in Ethiopia
» 04.09.2009 - Forum promises new action on women’s health and rights
» 02.09.2009 - Global women’s forum make claim on economic stimulus funds
» 01.09.2009 - UK funded malaria campaign launched in Nigeria
» 28.08.2009 - Universal access to Malaria will be met, UN Envoy
» 20.08.2009 - Zimbabwe still at risk of Cholera outbreak
» 19.08.2009 - More Somali refugees moved from overcrowded Kenyan camp
» 18.08.2009 - New report offers solutions to water and sanitation service delivery
» 17.08.2009 - Côte d’Ivoire wraps up polio immunisation campaign
» 17.08.2009 - New consortium to develop drugs for neglected tropical diseases
» 13.08.2009 - $6.8 million awarded to develop global health laboratory systems
» 12.08.2009 - $1.5 million life-saving support needed in CAR
» 10.08.2009 - Indigenous community must be celebrated with honour, Ban
» 31.07.2009 - 30 million children targeted in Nigeria's immunization campaign
» 30.07.2009 - Forum discusses role of infrastructure to health care
» 30.07.2009 - Angola gets UN support to boost access to water
» 17.07.2009 - Aid critical in Somalia, UN
» 09.07.2009 - Kenyans in court over Anti-Counterfeit Act
» 26.05.2009 - Agencies call for funds to replenish yellow fever vaccine supplies
» 19.05.2009 - Global health advocates call for African voices against Obama's budget cut
» 18.05.2009 - Nigeria plans to reverse malaria cases by 2010
» 12.05.2009 - Increasing Diarrheal related child mortality a global scandal, rights organisations
» 12.05.2009 - Global agencies call for more investment in life-saving vitamins and minerals
» 12.05.2009 - Burundi doctors continue strike over pay
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» 28.04.2009 - Global crisis impacting on HIV and AIDS treatment
» 27.04.2009 - Gabonese health workers to harden strike
» 24.04.2009 - Fight against malaria needs community participation
» 24.04.2009 - WHO calls for robust intervention in the malaria fight
» 23.04.2009 - Govt threatens to withhold pay for striking doctors
» 22.04.2009 - Africa-India satellite gets a nod in Nigeria
» 22.04.2009 - Malaria still main cause of deaths in Gambia
» 09.04.2009 - IFRC launches $2.1 million appeal for polio eradication
» 08.04.2009 - Lesotho ready to roll out social cash grants
» 18.03.2009 - UN send mission to assess Sahrawi refugees situation
» 13.03.2009 - New partnership to increase funding for Africa's finght against AIDS
» 12.02.2009 - Algeria to embark on health infrastructure development
» 10.02.2009 - Zimbabwe receives $11 million in humanitarian aid
» 19.01.2009 - $5 million boost for cholera fight in Zim
» 16.01.2009 - UN calls for release of convicted gay men in Senegal
» 08.01.2009 - Over 800, 000 children targeted for immunisation in CAR
» 07.01.2009 - Children's advocacy organisation gets a boost
» 06.01.2009 - Doctors strike in Lagos leaves patients stranded
» 19.12.2008 - Mugabe torment citizens to tighten his grip on power
» 17.12.2008 - Striking health workers resume duties
» 13.11.2008 - "Most Uganda child deaths easily preventable"
» 07.11.2008 - Zimbabwe releases $7.3 million global fund money
» 30.10.2008 - Cholera spreads to Zim's capital
» 30.10.2008 - MSF pulls out of Niger
» 23.10.2008 - US to disburse community grants to fight Malaria
» 22.10.2008 - Somali children given first priority in crisis food distribution
» 20.10.2008 - Nigeria strengthens its health systems
» 17.10.2008 - Ghanaian president hails breast cancer treatment mission
» 14.10.2008 - NCAP requests Ghana to act against water company
» 14.10.2008 - Campaign to end Fistula upsized
» 13.10.2008 - Malawi swaps HIV cash hand-outs for food
» 06.10.2008 - BHGI and Ghana combat breast cancer together
» 30.09.2008 - MSF calls for free malaria treatment for greater results
» 23.09.2008 - More focused work needed to meet MDGs in poor nations
» 15.09.2008 - Botswana tops charts as safest for children
» 04.09.2008 - Relief efforts increased in west Africa
» 28.08.2008 - Botswana faces imported TB calamity
» 31.07.2008 - Ethiopia seals $7.5 million deal
» 29.07.2008 - Increasing child malnutrition in Mauritania
» 24.08.2007 - Illegal Liberians’ deportation contested
» 17.07.2007 - Critical lack of health workers in Brazzaville
» 07.06.2007 - 2 million Zimbabwe children get polio vaccine
» 11.04.2007 - Mali finds no good way to boost health services
» 04.04.2007 - Demolition worries Cameroonians
» 02.04.2007 - More aid for Lesotho's numerous orphans
» 08.03.2007 - Mali govt to "beat malaria this year"
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