| 1. | Neonatal tetanus kills nearly 50, 000 newborns a year in sub-Saharan Africa.
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| 2. | The World Health Organisation certifies countries as having eliminated maternal or neonatal tetanus.
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| 3. | UNICEF and others have strategies for dealing with neonatal tetanus,
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| 4. | In 2011, Pampers joined with UNICEF to target maternal and neonatal tetanus in Yemen.
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| 5. | Unicef and others have strategies for dealing with neonatal tetanus,
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| 6. | Rates of neonatal tetanus fell by 25 % in countries following a MenAfriVac campaign.
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| 7. | In 2011, the Government of Ghana announced that it had eliminated maternal and neonatal tetanus.
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| 8. | Ninety percent of neonatal tetanus cases occur in 27 countries, 18 of them in Africa.
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| 9. | The agency notes that polio, leprosy, neonatal tetanus and Guinea worm disease have nearly been eliminated.
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| 10. | In Morocco, neonatal tetanus accounted for 20 % of neonatal deaths in 1987 but only 2 % in 1992.
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