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Japan helps fund anti-polio fight

The Japanese government and UNICEF have signed an agreement under which Japan will give Burkina Faso 106 million yen (about US $910,000) toward the purchase of vaccines against poliomyelitis, according to the Japanese embassy in Abidjan. This donation will enable enough vaccines to be purchased to immunise the roughly two million children aged four years and under in Burkina Faso, the embassy stated in a news release faxed to IRIN. It is aimed at supporting WHO's goal of eradicating polio in Africa by the year 2000, it said.

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