The campaign to eliminate neonatal tetanus received its first pledge of assistance in 1998 from Becton, Dickinson & AMP; Co ., a leading maker of syringes, which offered donations of equipment and some funds.
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Beginning in 2010 Kiwanis International joined with UNICEF to launch a new worldwide health initiative, The Eliminate Project, dedicated to wiping out maternal and neonatal tetanus ( MNT ), which kills more than 100, 000 babies worldwide each year.
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Beginning in 2010 Kiwanis International once again joined with UNICEF to launch a new worldwide health initiative, dedicated to wiping out maternal and neonatal tetanus ( MNT ), which kills more than 50, 000 babies and a significant number of women each year.
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This section does not cover elimination where it is used to mean control programs sufficiently tight to reduce the burden of an infectious disease or other health problem to a level where they may be deemed to have little impact on public health, such as the leprosy, neonatal tetanus, or obstetric fistula campaigns.
