A new vaccine against polio, being used for the first time on children in Afghanistan this week will be critical in the drive to eradicate the crippling virus, the World Health Organization said yesterday.
GULU district has run out of polio and DPP vaccines. The stock-out, according to the district health visitor, Sister Grace Anena, started on Monday due to a delay by the Uganda National Expanded Programme on Immunisation (UNEPI) to deliver the vaccines and gas.
Health officials and aid agencies in Guinea will mount the fifth polio vaccination drive this year from 12 to 16 December. The once polio-free country has recorded 37 cases since April.
The Representative of the World Health Organization in Nigeria, Dr. Peter Eriki has announced that the number of children in the high risk states in Nigeria who has been paralyzed by the wild polio virus in 2009 has declined by over 80% as compared to the same period in 2008.
United Nations peacekeepers airlifted doctors and vaccines to remote and inaccessible regions of Côte d'Ivoire today as the Government opened its latest campaign to immunize over 6 million children against polio.
World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that until more Nigerian children live above the poverty line, the country would continue to record more cases of polio.
CHAIRMAN of Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State, Mr. Godwin Ebosa, has stressed the need for all tiers of government across the country to tackle polio virus.
Abia State Government has said it is determined to eradicate polio from the state before the end of next year.
The District Chief Executive (DCE) of the Suhum Kraboa Coaltar Assembly, Mr. Sammy Kwabi, last Friday joined residents of the district to drum home the essence of polio immunisation in the country.
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