The Kenyan Medical Research Institute, under MOPH (Ministry of Public Health), also supported the ban based on this study.

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Agha Gul Dost, an official with Afghanistan's ministry of public health, said Afghan immunization programs faced extreme challenges, both from continuing violence and insecurity as well as from the country's forbidding terrain.

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While the Ministry of Education trains literacy teachers to identify learners in need of referral to the Public Health System network, the Ministry of Health gives learners access to professional eye tests and provides them with glasses.

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Mr. DE MISTURA: It would be good if we could have access to the ministry of health's public available data about mortality statistics, because it does help all of us to be able to confront a reality on the ground in terms of the figures and the impacts.

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But in April the public-health ministry said the risk of dengue was higher than for 40 years.

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Earlier this year, a body overseeing public finances exposed rampant misuse of public funds, including in the health ministry.

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In June, the ministry's Public Health Council also gave its approval, provided a number of minor conditions were met, such as giving publicity to sexually transmitted diseases.

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