Health

Africa needs to vaccinate 33 million children to put progress back on track

African Vaccination Week and World Immunization Week (24–30 April) theme is “The Big Catch-Up”, to reach kids who missed vaccinations, and to restore and strengthen routine immunization programmes
World Health Organization
By WHO
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Africa fights the ‘people trade’

Scourge of human trafficking ensnares hundreds of thousand
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Relief efforts gear up for Zimbabwe

Donors look for more progress on national reconciliation
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Enlisting men for women’s equality

South African initiatives against sexual violence, gender i
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Bringing water to Africa’s poor

Expanded access requires more funds, efficiency and capacity
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Pact to end use of children in war

States vow to ‘spare no effort’ in freeing child soldiers
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New global anti-AIDS campaign kicks off

Towards prevention, care and treatment for all by 2010
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Seeking peace with justice in Uganda

International charges filed against northern rebel leaders
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‘Children just do not have to die’

Simple, cheap interventions can reduce African mortality rates
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Fixing the humanitarian aid system

UN, relief groups seek to bolster and speed up food delivery
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Giant step for Kenya’s schools

Progress for both boys and girls towards Millennium education goal
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