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Alwaleed Foundation backs vaccine summitAlwaleed Bin Talal Foundation-Global, chaired by Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, has signed an agreement with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation co-chaired by Bill Gates More… |
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New $5.5bn plan aims to eradicate polio by 2018Health groups said on Thursday they could rid the world of polio by 2018 with a $5.5 billion vaccination and monitoring plan to stop the disease taking hold once more now there are only a handful of cases worldwide. Experts say th More… |
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Funding shortfall imperils anti-polio driveAn almost $1 billion shortfall in funding for the fight against polio is putting global efforts to eradicate the crippling viral disease in jeopardy, global health experts said on Wednesday. In a report released 10 years after Europe was d More… |
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WHO issues polio alert for Haj pilgrimsPolio has broken out in China for the first time since 1999 after being imported from Pakistan, and there is a high risk of the crippling virus spreading further during the Haj pilgrimage, the World Health Organization said. Nine cases hav More… |
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Double polio vaccine ‘effective’ against virusA new double-strain polio vaccine is more effective than triple and single vaccines and will be a potent weapon in the battle to eradicate the crippling virus, World Health Organisation (WHO) scientists said. In a study in the journal the More… |
Vaccine-linked polio hits NigeriaNigeria is fighting a rare outbreak of a vaccine-derived form of polio, says the UN's World Health Organisation. It says 69 children in the north have caught the paralysing disease from others who had already been immunised. The WH More… |
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INTERVIEW-New vaccines spur progress in global polio fightNew vaccines have sharply reduced the number of children paralysed by polio and raised hopes that a $5 billion campaign to wipe it out may be close to success, a top public health official said in an interview. About 404 people worldwide - More… |
