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March 20, 2002

INTERNATIONAL IMMUNIZATION NEWS

"Child Mortality Down in Russia, Accent on Disease Prevention--Minister" BBC Worldwide Monitoring (www.monitor.bbc.co.uk) (03/19/02)

The rate of child mortality declined in Russia last year, according to Russian Health Minister Yuriy Shevchenko, as the government increasingly focuses on disease prevention. Shevchenko noted that good results in vaccination were attained in 2001, and the number of typhoid and dysentery cases decreased. Shevchenko noted that beginning on April 1 of this year, a health survey of all children under the age of 18 will be initiated by the government in keeping with its policies regarding disease prevention and providing enough medicine

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