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Atlanta Daily World
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
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Conference of 30 countries in Nigeria recommends 10-year continent-wide campaign to eliminate yaws, affecting 50M worldwide and 25M in Africa. Seeks $10M UNICEF aid in March 1956; over 1.5M cured since 1953 via WHO/UNICEF efforts.
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By SAMUEL P. PERRY. JR.
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.-(ANP) --A conference of 30 countries, recently held in Nigeria, has recommended a continent-wide campaign to rid Africa of yaws disease within the next ten years. Yaws, a tropical body-wasting disease, currently victimizes about 50 million people throughout the world.
The meeting, the Second International Conference on Yaws Controls, has recommended a strategy meeting in case of African governments and medical officers for the purpose of working out details for this important mass campaign which will cover over 100 million people in Africa alone. An estimated $10 million in material aid will be sought from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) when that organization's 26-nation Executive Board meets in March 1956.
Africa has the largest incidence of yaws-some 25 million cases. As elsewhere, an overwhelming majority of sufferers become infected before the age of five.
Since 1953, anti-yaws campaigns aided by the World Health Organization and UNICEF have cured over 1,500,000 persons in Bechuanaland, the Gold Coast, Liberia, the Nigerian Federation and Togoland. Nigeria alone accounts for 1,400,000 Africans cured in the two-year campaign.
In the eastern region of Nigeria, where the International Conference on Yaws Control met, mobile medical field units are treating over 1000 patients a day. Observance of the work of a Niger River unit was part of the conference's agenda.
The continent-wide African yaws control campaign envisaged by the Conference will involve "not only the examination of 10 million people to find and cure Africa's estimated 25 million yaws cases, but prophylactic penicillin treatment of all vulnerable populations."
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over 1,500,000 persons cured since 1953 in bechuanaland, the gold coast, liberia, the nigerian federation and togoland; nigeria alone accounts for 1,400,000 africans cured in the two-year campaign; plan to examine 10 million people and provide prophylactic penicillin treatment to vulnerable populations
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A conference of 30 countries recently held in Nigeria recommended a continent-wide campaign to rid Africa of yaws disease within the next ten years. Yaws currently victimizes about 50 million people throughout the world, with Africa having the largest incidence of some 25 million cases, mostly infecting children before age five. The Second International Conference on Yaws Controls recommended a strategy meeting in case of African governments and medical officers to work out details for the mass campaign covering over 100 million people in Africa alone. An estimated $10 million in material aid will be sought from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) when that organization's 26-nation Executive Board meets in March 1956. Since 1953, anti-yaws campaigns aided by the World Health Organization and UNICEF have cured over 1,500,000 persons in various African regions. In the eastern region of Nigeria, where the conference met, mobile medical field units are treating over 1000 patients a day. Observance of the work of a Niger River unit was part of the conference's agenda. The continent-wide campaign will involve not only the examination of 10 million people to find and cure Africa's estimated 25 million yaws cases, but prophylactic penicillin treatment of all vulnerable populations.