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DAKAR, 27 January 2010 (IRIN) - Health experts hope the release of data showing the success of rotavirus vaccine will help compel policymakers to ensure all children will be immunized. Rotavirus " the top cause of severe and often fatal diarrhoea and dehydration in children " kills some ...
Read Story at IRINNews (2010-01-27)
DAKAR, 8 December 2009 (IRIN) - African health experts are calling on governments to vaccinate children against rotavirus, to end an "unacceptable" yet preventable situation in which the virus kills some 1,400 children in developing countries daily. The West African Rotavirus Advisory Board on 3 December held a ...
Read Story at IRINNews (2009-12-08)
Worried by the continued proliferation of diseases that are preventable through immunization, a new initiative that pools resources from various public and private sector groups has been launched.Known as the Blue Ribbon Polio Campaign, it is a massive National Programme on Immunization (NPI), headed by Dr. (Mrs) Dere Awosika and ...
Read Story at ThisDay (2005-09-04)
Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) experts decided to postpone, to forthcoming May, the approval of the Revision Committee Report on the implementation of the restructuring process of institutions and this regional organisation due to insufficiency of data. In meetings held last Saturday and Sunday, in Arusha, Tanzania, the experts agreed ...
Read Story at AngolaPress (2004-03-09)
Ebonyi state government has said that the state has maintained free poliovirus since 1999 and has recorded an average of 102 per cent coverage in the 2004 National Immunization Days exercise.In an address he delivered during the flag off of the first round of 2005 National Immunization Days exercise in ...
Read Story at ThisDay (2005-02-27)
CAIRO -- Egyptian and foreign salvage experts are preparing to lift the data recorders of a ferry that sunk in the Red Sea earlier this month after locating the ship's wreck, the press reported on Friday. The experts found on Thursday the Al Salam Boccaccio 98, which ...
Read Story at Middle East Times (2006-02-19)
Health personnel from the South- West region of Burkina Faso last Friday held a meeting with their Ghanaian counterparts at Wa in the Upper West region on the impending poliomyelitis immunization. The meeting was to institute measures for health personnel from both countries to collaborate to ensure maximum immunization along ...
Read Story at The Accra Daily Mail (2005-11-07)
Minister for Health, Prof. Eyitayo Lambo has urged the National Assembly to Enact a law that will make routine immunization compulsory for all Nigerian women and children. Lambo made this call yesterday while fielding questions at the 2004 Ministerial Press briefing in Abuja. He said the issue of mandatory immunization ...
Read Story at ThisDay (2004-09-08)
The National Information Technology Commission (CNTI) appealed to experts of the sector for a greater participation in the elaboration of the law on computerised crime, protection of data and information security. CNTI has already elaborated the bills that aim at improving with the contribution of citizens, jurists and experts of ...
Read Story at AngolaPress (2006-04-16)
The immunization of the Celebro Spinal Meningitis (CSM) vaccines on the people of Nothern Cross River in Cross River State has been completed with a result of 100 percent recorded, the National Programme on Immunization (NPI) Manager for the state, Mrs. Patricia Ikpeme has disclosed. According to the NPI Manager, ...
Read Story at ThisDay (2005-05-21)
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