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Successful vaccination feasible in low-income countries.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
2002 MAY 29 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Results of a study in the May 4, 2002, issue of the Lancet highlight the success of a WHO-recommended measles elimination strategy in southern Africa. Authors of the study emphasize how such strategies can substantially reduce illness and death from measles, the most contagious disease known to man.
Globally, although national immunization programs are estimated to prevent 80 million cases and 4.5 million deaths due to measles yearly, it is estimated that more than 30 million cases and 0.9 million deaths still occur every year; around half of these deaths occur in Africa.
In southern Africa from 1996, 7 countries with a total population of around 70 million (Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe) implemented measles elimination strategies. In addition to routine measles immunization at 9 months of age, these included nationwide catch-up campaigns among children aged 9 months to 14 years, then follow-up campaigns every ...
- Southern Africa: funds will revive Nacala railway. (Countryfile).
- Magazine article from: African Business Gama, Hobbs December 1, 2002 700+ words
...initiative to improve southern Africa's transport infrastructure...Four countries of southern Africa are pooling together...link between central southern Africa and the Indian Ocean...facility for low-income countries. Last July the executive...
- Monitoring the South African national antiretroviral treatment programme,...
- Magazine article from: South African Medical Journal Cornell, Morna Technau, Karl Fairall, Lara Wood, Robin Moultrie, Harry van Cutsem, Gilles Giddy, Janet Mohapi, Lerato Eley, Brian MacPhail, Patrick Prozesky, Hans Rabie, Helena Davies, Mary-Ann Maxwell, Nicola Boulle, Andrew September 1, 2009 700+ words
...and middle-income countries needed antiretroviral...AIDS (IeDEA) Southern Africa (IeDEA-SA...cohorts. IeDEA Southern Africa IeDEA-SA is the...collaboration of southern Africa. Since its establishment...
- SOUTHERN AFRICA.(Bibliography)
- Magazine article from: Africa Barringer, T. A. January 1, 1998 700+ words
...3104 Challenges facing agriculture in Southern Africa: a conference report. Inter-conference...productivity and natural resource use in southern Africa, Food Policy, 23, 6 1998 477...Traditional authority and democracy in Southern Africa: proceedings from the workshop...
- Southern Africa Direct Goes Live on Sky Channel 283.
- Press release article from: Business Wire November 27, 2007 700+ words
...channel for everyone with an interest in Southern Africa LONDON -- Southern Africa Direct, an exciting new lifestyle and culture...information from 25 countries in sub-equatorial Southern Africa, an incredibly beautiful and largely undiscovered...
- Southern Africa.(General-Libraries)
- Magazine article from: Africa September 22, 2004 700+ words
...political ecology and water reform in Southern Africa. Human organization 62 3 2003 277...Migration and the lived spaces of Southern Africa. Alternatives 28 1 2003 115-140...3717 Bhebe, N., Oral tradition in Southern Africa. Windhoek Gamsberg Macmilla 2002...
- Arqiva delivers Southern Africa Direct on Sky; --Arqiva is delivering Southern...
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire November 28, 2007 700+ words
...November 2007-Arqiva: Arqiva delivers Southern Africa Direct on Sky; --Arqiva is delivering Southern Africa Direct onto the Sky Digital platfor...it is supporting the delivery of Southern Africa Direct, a new free-to-air lifestyle...
- Retosa takes leaf from the Caribbean to create Recipe for success.(Regional...
- Magazine article from: African Business Luxner, Larry June 1, 2001 700+ words
Southern Africa has taken a leaf from the Caribbean...tourist officials from throughout southern Africa -eager 3 to lure well-heeled...Regional Tourism Organisation of Southern Africa. "As far back as 1992, the region...
- AFRICA-POLITICS: SOUTHERN AFRICA EMERGES AS CONTINENT'S CHAMPION
- News wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire Rose Umoren June 6, 1995 700+ words
...Africa. In the 1970s and 1980s, Southern Africa was wracked by war and insecurity...independence in 1975. Today, a free Southern Africa is marching. After three decades...its borders. For the first time in Southern Africa, as Angola moves towards a settlement...
