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Ghana adopts strategies to eradicate guinea worm disease by 2013 4 Nov 2009 16:10 GMT
... Health News of Wednesday, 4 November 2009 Ghana adopts strategies to eradicate guinea worm disease by 2013 Nkoranza, (B/A) Nov 4, GNA - The Ghana Health Service is determined ...
Ghana adopts strategies to eradicate guineaworm disease by 2013 5 Nov 2009 21:45 GMT
... The Ghana Health Service is determined to eradicate the guinea worm disease in the country by the year 2013, Mr Bernard Acheampong, Nkoranza South District Disease ...
Benue Certified as Guinea Worm Free 5 Nov 2009 20:54 GMT
... Makurdi — After several interventions in Guinea Worm infested areas of Benue State, the Jimmy ... the state as completely free of the disease. This was disclosed by Former Head of ...
1st Annual Neglected Tropical Diseases meeting starts in Uganda 5 Nov 2009 15:00 GMT
... Uganda - The first Annual Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) Control Partners' Meeting organised in the ... medicines, intensifying interventions for the eradication of Guinea worm disease, strengthe ning surveillance, monitoring and evaluation ...
Leprosy - the age-old disease - spread globally from East Africa mirroring population and trade movements but has hardly changed over time, new research shows. 5 Nov 2009 08:10 GMT
... Leprosy - the age-old disease - spread globally from East Africa mirroring ... has been shown with other diseases like guinea worm or polio," he told swissinfo.ch. "The end ...

Poorer countries make drugs the rich world won't 4 Nov 2009 22:30 GMT
... developed faster if they weren't crippled by disease. It's nothing to do with self-dependency it's ... local diseases like Tsetse fly sleeping sickness, Guinea worm which are horrendous illnesses. I personally have ...
Scientists retrace history of ancient scourge 5 Nov 2009 09:18 GMT
... Leprosy - the age-old disease - spread globally from East Africa mirroring ... has been shown with other diseases like guinea worm or polio," he told swissinfo.ch. "The end ...