Jun 26, 2012

Day of the African Child: More than an event…

One of the biggest threats with any commemoration is that they may run the risk of becoming mere events which easily get forgotten only to be remembered when the next event is on.

But if there is one commemoration that should never be tucked away until the next one, it is the Day of the African Child, which was commemorated on Saturday.


Former South Africa President Nelson Mandela may not have been specific on the African child, but he was nevertheless spot-on when he said: “There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.”
He undoubtedly understands the unique position of a child!. 

Africa: UNICEF Calls for Social Inclusion of Children With Disabilities in Africa.

Theme of the Day of the African Child 2012: “The Rights of Children with Disabilities: The Duty to Protect, Respect, Promote and Fulfill”.

A 17-year-old, who lost his sight at the age of ten due to river blindness, speaks for many of Africa’s children with disabilities when he says: “I thought it was the end of my world, but with education, I am hopeful that I will be useful in society and not be a beggar in the streets.” Bai Kamara is enrolled at the UNICEF-supported Educational Centre for the Blind and Visually Impaired in the capital Freetown where work is underway to put the Sierra Leone Child Rights Act into Braille.

Millions of children in Africa live with some sort of disability. On the Day of the African Child 2012, UNICEF calls on families, communities and governments throughout the continent to protect children with disabilities from discrimination, violence and neglect, and to provide them with access to all the services they need to grow up healthy and live up to their potential.

Pakistan to persuade Taliban to lift polio ban.

Islamabad: Pakistani authorities will make a move to persuade militants in North Waziristan to lift a ban on anti-polio vaccination teams, which was imposed as the militants believe it to be a cover for US spies, officials have said.

Local warlord Hafiz Gul Bahadur had banned the anti-polio campaign in North Waziristan, a Taliban and al Qaeda infested region bordering Afghanistan.

Togo: Relieving disabled children from crippling customs.

LOME, Togo (IRIN) – Out of fear, shame and strong traditional beliefs, disabled children in Togo are often ridiculed, hidden indoors for years and neglected, cutting them off from normal life and worsening their plight.

“I was told I was good for nothing. Even my brothers and sisters said I was inferior to them, and they mocked me,” said Sofia Adama, 18, who was left disabled by a botched injection when she was a baby.

Between five and 10 percent of children in Africa have disabilities, mainly due to genetic and birth complications, diseases such as poliomyelitis, measles, meningitis and cerebral malaria, as well as poor health and diet, according to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

Islamabad - Economic Survey: Communicable diseases still major cause of deaths.

ISLAMABAD, May 31: Communicable diseases still account for a major cause of death in Pakistan while health indicators have been slow to improve due to various external and natural factors.

According to the Economic Survey 2011-12, the National Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) highlighted that the seven killer communicable diseases – tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, pertussis (bacterial disease that causes uncontrollable, violent coughing), neonatal tetanus, measles and hepatitis B – affected a large number of poor population.

Read more http://dawn.com

COMP adopted the use of 1-[(2-Chloro-4-methoxyphenoxy)methyl]-4-[(2,6-dichlorophenoxy)methyl]benzene for prevention of poliomyelitis in patients with immunodeficiencies deemed at risk.

COMP adopts nine recommendations for orphan designation.

 In a strategic meeting that was held in London early this month, the Committee for Orphan Medicinal Products (COMP), a body set up by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to review applications from people or companies seeking 'orphan medicinal product designation', adopted a total of nine recommendations for orphan designation, including four designation applications for very rare forms of lipodystrophy.

Read more http://pharmabiz.com

 

Nigeria: Polio - Katsina Records Seven Cases.

Despite intensive campaign on the eradication of poliomyelitis in Katsina State, seven new cases of the infection have been recorded within the last one year.

Read more http://allafrica.com

Jun 20, 2012

Two polio cases in Sindh in 2012.

Karachi—As many as 16 cases of polio have come to the fore in the year 2012 and two of them in the province of Sindh. This was stated by the sindh Minister for Health, Dr. Sagheer Ahmed. 

Continue reading pakobserver.net

Common and Diverse Features of Cocirculating Type 2 and 3 Recombinant Vaccine-Derived Polioviruses Isolated From Patients With Poliomyelitis and Healthy Children.

Five cases of poliomyelitis due to type 2 or 3 recombinant vaccine-derived polioviruses (VDPVs) were reported in the Toliara province of Madagascar in 2005.

Continue reading jid.oxfordjournals.org

Polio and resistance ‘virus’ CDGL goes the extra mile.


LAHORE, June 16: Suspicion of Wild Polio Virus in environment and 450 ‘refusal cases’ have alerted the City District Government of Lahore and health authorities, it is learnt.

The authorities have introduced a Short Interval Additional Dose (SIAD) strategy to meet the ‘crisis’ and even sought the police help to cover the remaining children at grave risk of contracting the crippling disease.

Continue reading dawn.com

Karola Rengis - Post-Polio Syndrom.


Gründete Rengis eine Selbsthilfegruppe.


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Es lohnt sich zu kämpfen. Erfahrungsaustausch und Informationen: Die Polio Selbsthilfe bietet ihre Unterstützung an.

 

Engagieren sich in der Polioselbsthilfe: Dorel Savescu (links) und Erwin Nisch. Foto: Dorothee Möller-Barbian

BAD KROZINGEN. All jenen, welche in den 1950er Jahren an Kinderlähmung (Poliomyelitis) erkrankten und nun unter den Spätfolgen, dem erst seit rund 20 Jahren bekannten Postpoliosyndrom (PPS) leiden, bietet die Polio Selbsthilfe Unterstützung an. Der Verein hat gerade die Selbsthilfegruppe Freiburg gegründet, die sich fortan im Lazariterhof des Park-Klinikums Bad Krozingen treffen will. Unter dem Dach des Bundesverbandes Polio existiert in Freiburg seit Jahren eine weitere Selbsthilfegruppe.
Dorel Savescu (62), seit 30 Jahren in Deutschland lebender Rumäne und Ansprechpartner der neuen Gruppe, war zwei Jahre alt, als ihn die Infektionskrankheit heimsuchte. Nach umfangreichen Therapien stabilisiert, konnte er wie viele andere Betroffene ein beinahe normales Leben führen und sogar Sport treiben. Dann, vor vier Jahren sackte er beim Einkaufen plötzlich zusammen, weil die Beine versagten.
Eine Heilung gibt es derzeit nicht

An eine Verbindung mit der einst durchgemachten Krankheit dachte zunächst niemand, bis ein Neurologe die Diagnose PPS stellte. Damit erging es Savescu ähnlich wie etwa 80 Prozent der einst von Kinderlähmung Betroffenen. Die Zahl derer, die die Rückkehr der Poliomyelitis als fortschreitende, neuromuskuläre Erkrankung mit absterbenden Nervenzellen erleben, gibt der Verein mit etwa 100 000 an. Sie sind mit Symptomen wie Gelenk- und Muskelschmerzen, extremer Müdigkeit, Atembeschwerden oder Krämpfen konfrontiert. Eine Heilung gibt es derzeit nicht.

Jun 10, 2012

Harcba szálltak a ''Heine-Medinesek''. Jobb ellátásért küzdenek a hazai járványos gyermekbénuláson átesett betegek.

Szakszerű egészségügyi ellátást, a rehabilitációs kapacitások bővítését, megfelelő intézményi beteggondozást szeretnének a járványos gyermekbénuláson átesett betegek, akik tiltakoznak az ellen, hogy felülvizsgálják őket, és csökkentsék vagy elvegyék az ellátásukat. Magyarországon a súlyos mozgássérültek nem férnek hozzá a szűrővizsgálatok egy részéhez, mert hiányzik az ehhez szükséges infrastruktúra. Ezen is szeretnének változtatni a „Heine-Medinesek", akik a hatékony és egységes fellépés érdekében külön szekciót alakítottak a Mozgáskorlátozottak Egyesületeinek Országos Szövetségén (MEOSZ) belül - tájékoztatott az érdekvédő szervezet.

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