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WHO Finds Yaws in Fiji
LTHOUGH many people be- L lieved that yaws in Fiji j} a d be come only a minor health worry ice the era of the late Dr. S. M.
mbert, a Medical Department
itement in May indicates other- An anti-yaws campaign is now ider way with the aid of the orld Health Organisation and the lited Nations Children’s Fund. [n May it was announced that 'o of the five treatment teams lich will tour Fiji to give peni lin injections, had completed their lining. , , , At the same time it was stated at “it is estimated that from 15 to 20 p.c. of the Fijians are still ffering from yaws”—an estimate sed on “reports submitted gularly by Assistant Medical actitioners, Health Sisters and irses over the years.”
Blood tests have already been rried out with several thousand ople in Cakaudrove and it is ex ited that the entire Fijian popu tion will be examined during the ;xt 12 months.
A similar yaws control project in estem Samoa, with assistance om the WHO and UNICEF, is heduled to begin in June.