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May 8, 2002

INTERNATIONAL IMMUNIZATION NEWS

"NID Program"

United News of Bangladesh (www.oananews.com/news.index.html)

(05/06/02)

The first round of the National Immunization Day (NID) will be held in Bangladesh on January 19, 2003, with the second round starting March 1.  As a supplement to next year's NID, 42 districts in the country will have access to NIDs on August 10, 2002 and September 14, 2002, according to decisions made in a recent meeting of the Health and Family Welfare Ministry steering committee.  Polio cases from different areas of Bangladesh threaten the country's eradication of the disease, according to Health and Family Welfare Minster and steering committee president Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain.

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