Hi!
This is indeed great news! I just got home after an extremely long day
but have to express my joy before going to bed. This is just great!
Buharry.

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Date: 2009-03-19 19:15
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Subj: Re: LATEST ON HALIFA SALLAH


Great news indeed. What a waste of time and goodwill for Yahya.
Haruna.


In a message dated 3/19/2009 1:58:42 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
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Gambia frees 'spying' politician


Halifa Sallah has been imprisoned many times  before

Gambian opposition leader Halifa Sallah has been  released from jail
and all
charges against him dropped.
Mr Sallah was arrested earlier this month and charged with  spying,
sedition
and holding illegal meetings.
Shortly after his release, Mr Sallah told the BBC he had no  idea why
he had
been detained because all the charges were false.
Mr Sallah, who leads the National Alliance for Democracy and
Development,
has been imprisoned many times before.
During elections three years ago he stood against Gambian  President
Yahya
Jammeh, who has been in power since a coup in  1994.
A report by Amnesty International released in November said  opponents
of Mr
Jammeh were subjected to daily rights violations,  including torture
and
unlawful arrest.








---  On Thu, 19/3/09, Yusupha Jow <[log in to unmask]>  wrote:


From:  Yusupha Jow <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [>-<] Gambia  to introduce new vaccines
To: "dialog"  <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, 19 March,  2009, 4:23 PM


ambia to introduce new vaccines
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Buya Jammeh, AfricaNews reporter in  Banjul, Gambia
Two new pneumonia vaccines, Penta and  PCV-7, for children under five
are to
be introduced in April and  June this year as part of activities of
the
Expanded Programme on  Immunization (EPI) of the Department of State
for Health in
Gambia.  The move is aimed at helping to reduce pneumonia in that
country.




The programmes follow the  implementation of a large-scale pneumococal
vaccine efficacy  trial using PCV 9 in 2001.  According to Dawda
Sowe,
Communications Officer EPI Unit, the PCV 9 was found to be  very
effective.






Commenting on the new vaccines, Sowe said PCV 7 is  ?safe and
efficacious and
is used routinely in industrialized  countries.? He added that PCV 7 is
the
only licensed and available  pneumococcal conjugate vaccine which
contains
seven serotypes.
PCV 7 has been used to  vaccinate controls and on other children in
Gambian
trial without any  reported safety issues.
In May  2008, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI)
approved  Gambia?s proposals to introduce PCV-7 and to switch to
pentavalent
vaccines.
Prior to implementation, the  technical team which took part in the
trials
was reviewed and updated  training guidelines put in place for PCV-7
and Penta
and developed a  road map for the vaccines? introduction.  The WHO
Country
Office provided technical and financial support.
It is reported that globally, the leading cause of  morbidity and
mortality
are pneumonia, and other respiratory infections.  Of these, the WHO
estimates
that 80 percent are directly linked to  Streptococcus pneumonia (the
most
common cause of bacterial meningitis,  community-acquired pneumonia,
bacteremia and
otitis media).   It is widely believed that at least half of these
occur in
children under 5 and mostly in developing countries.
In Gambia,  invasive pneumococcal disease is a major cause of morbidity
and
mortality in the West African country.
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