almotamar.net - The Yemen Ministry of Public Health and Population said Thursday it is working at the present time to get rid of tetanus disease by targeting around two million and 200 thousand women during the year 2009 and more than one million women of the ages 15-45 years old that it had targeted in campaigns in previous years.

In its directory presented to Arab Gulf States Health Ministers held in Sana�a in the past two days, the Ministry affirmed it has secured vaccines against lung disasters, beginning from January 2010 under support by World Vaccine Alliance with a sum of $15million, in addition to the government support for immunization activities that exceeded an amount of $8 million every year.

This activity comes as part of the most important measures the Ministry carries out in the area of health care fighting the widespread diseases particularly the 8 children diseases by immunization campaigns and programs to control some diseases and eliminate the other some.