Officials everywhere will doubtless use the outbreak as an opportunity for promoting vaccination, not just for polio but for all
the childhood killer diseases.
He said anybody that wanted evidence about Ghana's dire need for aid, should go to the health sector where many Ghanaian children were dying of
childhood killer diseases because donor countries had cut back on vaccine donations.
Not exact matches
Even vaccines to immunize our children against the six
killer childhood diseases has not been unavailable for the past three months.
«Upsetting a fragile alliance triggers a deadly
childhood disease: Study bolsters the fight against SMA, the leading genetic
killer of newborns.»
Measles — along with tuberculosis, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and poliomyelitis — is one of the six
childhood «
killer diseases» targeted by World Health Organization (WHO) mass immunization programs.
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Childhood cancer is the number one
disease killer of children and approximately 13,500 children in the United States alone are diagnosed with cancer a year,» said Nicole de Lara Puente, CEO of the Live Like Bella
Childhood Cancer Foundation.