“Angola: Polio Vaccination Campaign Reached the Whole Country”

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All of Angola received the poliomyelitis vaccine during a recent national vaccination campaign. Previous vaccination efforts in the country have been less successful due to widespread fighting. The last polio case was reported in Angola in 2001, but the country will continue polio vaccination campaigns in hopes of completely eliminating the disease by 2005. The vaccine campaign targets displaced people within Angola as well as populations from neighboring countries who have entered Angola.

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