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Vaccination is crucial for preventing the spread of the polio, a highly contagious disease that can lead to paralysis and even death. But widespread, ongoing conflict in Somalia< Read more »
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The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) is working closely with the Ministry of Health in the South Sudan to manage a suspected disease outbreak, ... Read more »
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Health authorities in Burundi have announced that they had identified eight samples of polio, marking the country's first outbreak of the disease in over 30 years. The World ... Read more »
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Measles vaccination coverage has steadily declined since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2021, a record high of nearly 40 million children missed a measles vaccine dose: ... Read more »
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Emergency Operations Centres (EOCs) first used in Nigeria during the national polio response, were valuable assets in Nigeria's polio response, and they continue to be a vital ... Read more »
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African health ministers have met to seek ways of ramping up measures to halt the outbreak of Wild Poliovirus Type 1 in southern Africa, where the virus has been detected in Read more »
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Health authorities in Mozambique declared an outbreak of wild poliovirus on May 18, 2022 after confirming that a child in the north-eastern Tete province had contracted the d Read more »
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Malawi and U.N. agencies have launched an emergency response to the country's polio outbreak, the first in Africa in five years. The plan includes mass immunisation of childr Read more »
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August 25 marks the first anniversary of a milestone that took over 30 years to achieve: Afric Read more »
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Four decades ago, an estimated 350,000 people were paralysed each year by the poliovirus in more than 125 countries. This led the World Health Assembly in 1988 to adopt a ... Read more »
