Nigerians travelling abroad would be compelled to take the oral polio vaccine beginning in May next year, said Ray Nihar, an official of the World Health Organisation. Read more »
The country has launched a polio campaign which seeks to vaccinate more than one million children under the age of five against the disease. Read more »
A partnership between the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as well as the Federal and Kano state governments, Dangote Group could see the eradication of polio in Kano State. This ... Read more »
Opposition to immunisation in polio-endemic countries is one of the final hurdles to eradicating the disease, a conference has heard. Read more »
Celebrity ambassadors including Kenya's Eric Wainaina have signed up in support of This Close campaign aimed at eradicating polio. Read more »
Katsina state still has the highest cases of polio infection in Nigeria, says Dr Mustapha Mahmud, Head of the Immunisation Unit of the National Primary Health Care Development ... Read more »
Eradicating Polio is a tremendous challenge, but the world is coming together with the financial resources, the political commitment, and the innovation necessary to protect every ... Read more »
The global Polio Eradication Initiative at the World Health Organisation says Nigeria is not on track to achieve eradication of polio despite the adequate tools and capacity to ... Read more »
As of July 10, 2012, Nigeria has recorded 49 new cases of wild poliovirus in 10 states compared to 25 cases during the same period in 2011. This increase has prompted the ... Read more »
Despite the dramatic drop in polio cases in the last year, the threat of continued transmission due to funding and immunization gaps has driven the Global Polio Eradication ... Read more »
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