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• - All visitors over one year of age arriving from infected areas must have a yellow fever vaccination certificate. Hepatitis B, malaria, cholera, trachoma, schistosomiasis, river blindness, and sleeping sickness are all hazards.
  
• - The main public health threat is epidemics, particularly malaria, diarrhea disease and meningitis; and malnutrition is a long-term consequence of food shortfall.
  
• - In Angola, more than 80% of babies are delivered at home. While delivery is a celebrated event for the family and community, for women and newborns it is an experience filled with risk.
  
• - Number of reported cases and reported percent of target population fully vaccinated, by antigen.
  
• - Information from this non-profit humanitarian relief organization working to save lives and relieve suffering through health interventions and medical training.
  
• - Many case patients resided in overcrowded municipalities where families displaced by civil war had settled. Ministry of Health suspected the outbreak was poliomyelitis and began planning a vaccination campaign to control the epidemic.
  
• - Logistical problems with supply and distribution of equipment as well as the lack of physical security impeded the provision of health care throughout the country.
  
• - Following the information posted on 6 August 1998, the Ministry of Health in Angola has now reported a total of 1113 cases of meningococcal meningitis from the four affected provinces of Bié, Malange, Huambo and Lunda Norte.