The Ministry of Health and Child Care (MOHCC) in collaboration with UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO), Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), US Centre for Disease Control (USCDC) and other partners have surpassed the four million target for polio vaccination using the nOPV2 vaccine. This follows the confirmation of circulating poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) […]
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Zimbabwean health authorities have urged parents to vaccinate their children against polio. This comes after two healthy children tested positive for the virus in a routine environmental surveillance. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Ministry of Health and Child Care said that the children who are below five years old, did not show any […]
Nairobi — A polio vaccination campaign that was planned for November but postponed due to heavy rains and floods is finally taking place in three high risk counties in the northeastern part of Kenya. This comes after 13 cases of the so-called circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (CVDPV2) were discovered last year in the area. […]
United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has pleaded with parents and guardians in Bauchi State to allow their wards to receive second term of polio vaccine. A representative of UNICEF, Haladu Sabo, made the appeal yesterday at the flag-off of the Second Term Polio Campaign in Bauchi. He urged parents to ensure that all the children […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) says 21 countries in the African Region are still experiencing circulating variant polio outbreaks. The WHO regional director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, stated this in her statement to mark this year’s World Polio Day. She said some of them were in areas that had not seen any previous circulation […]
Rumbidzayi Zinyuke in Victoria Falls Government has launched the fourth round of the national polio vaccination programme targeting children under the age of five years across the country. The programme was launched by the Minister of Health and Child Care Dr Douglas Mombeshora at Chinotimba Clinic in Victoria Falls and will run until October 13. […]
The Yobe State government has commenced the immunisation of 1.1 million children against polio and other diseases across the 17 local government areas of the state. The four-day immunisation exercise is part of the polio outbreak response from the Ministry of Health in collaboration with the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) and the […]
Health authorities in Burundi on Friday said that they had detected eight samples of polio, officially declaring the landlocked African nation’s first outbreak in more than 30 years. Heath authorities said there was a confirmed case in an unvaccinated four-year-old child in Isale district, in western Burundi, as well as two other children with whom […]
Dakar — To address declining immunization rates and the resurgence of polio, President Macky Sall – speaking during the Forum for Polio Vaccination and Eradication in Africa held this weekend in Dakar – called on heads of state and other stakeholders to urgently re-mobilize around the Addis Declaration. Sall also encouraged them to reaffirm their commitment […]
In August 2020, Africa was certified free of wild poliovirus. But new cases of the disease have emerged in Malawi and in Mozambique this year. SciDev.Net spoke with Ephrem T. Lemango, the associate director of immunisation at the UN children’s agency UNICEF, about the reasons behind the resurgence and what needs to be done to […]
THE poliovirus vaccine being administered to children during the ongoing vaccination and revaccination campaign is totally safe and will protect them from illness, the Government has said. The vaccination blitz started yesterday and will run until Sunday, targeting 95 percent of all the 2,5 million children under the age of five in the country. The […]
The Emeka Offor Foundation (SEOF) has enjoined the country to double its momentum towards continuous immunisation, rapid outbreak response, enhanced surveillance, fundraising, awareness, and advocacy against polio. Founder of the foundation and Rotary International Polio Ambassador to Nigeria, Dr Emeka Offor, made the call in a statement to mark this year’s World Polio Day. He […]
The global health body said as many as 20 million children have been spared disability and are walking today. The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday said global efforts to curtail spread of the poliovirus have achieved a 99.9 per cent decrease in polio cases. The WHO Regional Director for Africa, Matshidiso Moeti, in a […]
Rotary International Polio Ambassador to Nigeria, Sir Emeka Offor has stressed the need for the nation to bolster efforts to sustain the eradication of wild polio in Nigeria as the nation celebrates two years since the last reported case in the country. Offor also encouraged Nigeria to double its momentum towards continuous immunization, rapid outbreak […]
“While polio exists anywhere, it’s a threat everywhere” — Ian Riseley, President, The Rotary Foundation Nigeria was declared wild poliovirus free on the 25th August 2020. The news was met with a lot of celebration. The long-fought battle towards a wild polio free status had been won in Africa. Nigeria was the final country in […]
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Tanzania: Govt Establishes Polio Centre
Dodoma — The Ministry of Health has established a state-of-the-art- Polio Emergency Operations Centre (PEOC) in Dodoma. The centre is designed for coordinating emergency services, deploying responders, identifying needed experts for each unique situation, and developing strategies to stop the spread of disease in the country. Speaking during the commissioning of the centre, Permanent Secretary […]
Lagos — Recently, the governor of the state of New York in the United States, declared a state of emergency over polio. This declaration followed the discovery of the poliovirus in sewage samples in four counties. Because of the New York cases, the U.S. is now on a list of countries with circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV). This spread […]
Kintampo — Dr Adomako-Boateng said this last Thursday at the regional launch of the first round of oral polio vaccination campaign, at Kintampo, in the Bono East Region. The Regional Director noted that the vaccination was slated for September 1-4, this year for the first round, and October 6-9, for the second round. He stated […]