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Vulnerability is often related to a particular stage of the migration process. For example, some migrants are most vulnerable at their destination, as is often the case with men who work far from home in men-only camps or barracks. For others, the greatest risk occurs in transit, as with women who have to trade sex in order to survive or complete their journeys. Also vulnerable are the partners of those who become infected while away, especially married women. Their vuln...

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It is a special pleasure for me to bive the opportunity to attend and to speak at this, the first International Seminar on Smallpox Eradication to be held in Sudan. In some ways, it seems paradoxical to conveae a smallpox Seminar in Khartoum at this time, fully ten months after the last known case of smallpox has occurred in the country. But,

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The authors have studied the harmlessness and immunogenic properties of live poliom~elitis vaccine made in Leningrad from Sabin strains of 10x5- pathogenicit:- for monkeys. More than 20 000 children of pre-school (6 months to 3 years) and school age (7-14 years) were each gi1-en 100 000 tissue-culture infective doses, of virus of types 1, 2 and 3> injected either in three stages at monthly intervals in the form of monovaccines. or in two stages, a monovaccine of type 1 b...

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Philippines. Introduction and widespread use of poliovirus vaccines (OPV and PV) have led to the virmal elmination of pohomyelitis in many developed countries, and to substantial reductions in its incidence in developing counmes. In 1985, the Pan American Health Organization adopted the goal of eradicating poliomyelins from the Region of the Americas by 1990.' The developments and progress aclueved towards poliomyeliris eradication in the Americas led the Forty-first Wor...