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U.N. campaign under way to vaccinate 60 million African children.(polio)(Brief Article)
2002 DEC 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- An immunization campaign to vaccinate 60 million children under 5 years old in 16 West African countries is under way as part of a global campaign to eradicate polio, the virus that cripples children, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) says.
Similar immunization campaigns over the past 2 years have driven the number of polio-endemic countries in Africa down from 20 in 1999 to an all-time low of 3 countries this year - Nigeria, with 95% all cases in Africa, Niger and Somalia, UNICEF said.
UNICEF attributed the success to a broad partnership called the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, under which the world's largest vaccine manufacturer, Aventis Pasteur, donated 30 million doses of oral polio vaccine.
Started in 1988, the Initiative has reduced poliovirus transmission from 350,000 cases in 125 countries to a handful in 10 countries at the beginning of 2002. "Of these just 3 - India, Nigeria ...
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