Polio eradication reaches critical stage
The eagle eye of the polio surveillance team has been keeping a sharp lookout for reported cases of polio. And when such a case is reported, the government has been attacking this area and its surrounding districts with a carpet-bombing like vaccine-administration programme.

Combating AIDS
The Union Health Ministry has undertaken a massive project to organise sex workers in the north-eastern states with a view to checking the spread of AIDS, which has acquired endemic proportions in the region.

Maharashtra welfare organisation gets Hilton nomination
The Maharashtra State Women's Council (MSWC), a welfare organisation that has been working for underprivileged women and children since 81 years, has received a nomination for the $1 million Conrad N Hilton Humanitarian Prize for the year 2000.


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