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    The United States and Germany have donated 43 million francs CFA (US $60,000) to stop a meningitis epidemic which has claimed about 1,000 lives in Burkina Faso, AFP reported Burkinabe officials as saying on Thursday. The money will be used to buy additional vaccines. Burkina Faso is located in Africa’s “meningitis belt” and suffers from this disease each year from November to April. It has been the hardest hit in West Africa this year with more than 6,000 cases recorded since January. However the disease has entered into its “declining phase”, AFP quoted the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Health, Mathias Some as saying. About three million people have already been vaccinated, AFP reported. The German donation amounted to 25 millions francs CFA and the US contributed the remainder.

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