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    UN Helps Curb Measles in Zimbabwe

    By Ma. Rizza Leonzon // 26 May 2010

    Zimbabwe has unveiled a United Nations-backed initiative aimed at protecting children between the ages of 6 months and 14 years from measles. The initiative seeks to immunize some 5 million children and provide them with vitamin A supplements.

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