Polio

BERLIN, Germany - The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) yesterday at the World Health Summit, announced it will commit $1.2 billion to support efforts to end all forms of polio globally. The announcement was made ahead of a key…

Burkina Faso yesterday (July 6) concluded a four-day mass polio immunization campaign, vaccinating 174 304 children under five years of age in two districts of the country’s Centre-East region, while observing COVID-19 infection…

Targets 18 million children below 15 years Uganda today begins a 5-day immunization campaign against measles and rubella, targeting 18 million children –  which amounts to 43% of the country’s population. Among them, 8.2…

Evaluation towards certification begins at 69th session of WHO Regional Committee in Brazzaville  Will Africa region join the four WHO regions that have successfully eradicated the wild polio virus? This is the big poser expected…

Eradication bid suffers setback as three new cases are discovered in Lagos Embarks of 4-day house-to-house immunisation Nigeria's polio eradication bid has suffered a major setback following the discovery of…

United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) is set to launch a social media campaign by the name “VaccinesWork” to promote global support for immunization. The campaign, to be launched on 24 April, 2019, is to further convince the world that…

If its current efforts are sustained  No case recorded in 25 months ABUJA - Executive Secretary, National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) Dr Faisal Shuaib, on Monday, October 29, at the 36th meeting of Expert…

Rotary on Wednesday, August 15, 2018 announced nearly $100 million in grants to support the global effort to end polio, a vaccine-preventable disease that once paralysed hundreds of thousands of children each year. The announcement comes…

Targets over 4.8 million eligible children The second round of 2018 National Immunization Plus Days (NIPDs), polio vaccination campaign for children aged zero to 59 months will hold in Lagos State from Saturday 30th June to Tuesday…

as  review committee meets in Abuja ABUJA – Though Nigeria has remained polio-free for over a year, there is yet a challenge of poor immunization coverage in some parts of the country, experts said in Abuja on Monday. The development…