The main public health threat is epidemics, particularly malaria, diarrhea disease and meningitis; and malnutrition is a long-term consequence of food shortfall.

Logistical problems with supply and distribution of equipment as well as the lack of physical security impeded the provision of health care throughout the country.

All visitors over one year of age arriving from infected areas must have a yellow fever vaccination certificate. Hepatitis B, malaria, cholera, trachoma, schistosomiasis, river blindness, and sleeping sickness are all hazards.

Number of reported cases and reported percent of target population fully vaccinated, by antigen.

In Angola, more than 80% of babies are delivered at home. While delivery is a celebrated event for the family and community, for women and newborns it is an experience filled with risk.

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Following the information posted on 6 August 1998, the Ministry of Health in Angola has now reported a total of 1113 cases of meningococcal meningitis from the four affected provinces of Bié, Malange, Huambo and Lunda Norte.

Many case patients resided in overcrowded municipalities where families displaced by civil war had settled. Ministry of Health suspected the outbreak was poliomyelitis and began planning a vaccination campaign to control the epidemic.