As Nigeria commemorates three years of wild poliovirus free status, the minister of health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, has identified the impact of COVID -19 and insecurity in some parts of the country as fuelling the re-emerging variants of the polio viruses (cVPV2). The minister, who stated this yesterday at the third-year anniversary of Wild Poliovirus […]
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Maputo — The Mozambican health authorities are preparing a fourth round of the polio vaccination campaign for children aged between zero and 59 months, a measure considered to be effective in cutting the transmission of the virus and protecting children. The action is dependent on coordination with neighboring countries, since the disease is transnational and […]
Maputo — The Maputo city health authorities have extended the third round of the polio national vaccination campaign by a further 24 hours, in an attempt to cover all children under the age of five in the Mozambican capital. The third round began last Thursday, and should have lasted for only four days, ending on […]
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Eritrea: Public Notice
The Ministry of health, further to its strong acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) surveillance, has identified laboratory-confirmed cases of Circulating Vaccine Derived Polio Virus (CVDPV) in Eritrea. The Ministry declares this one unusual public health event as an outbreak according to the International Health Regulation (IHR) 2005. As of 3 June 2022, the Ministry with its […]
Maputo — The Mozambican health authorities on Wednesday declared a public health emergency following the confirmation of a case of wild polio virus (PVS1). This case was confirmed on 14 May in a child in Changara district, in the western province of Tete. “Faced with this situation, and as international health regulations recommend, we must […]
RUKWA Region is set to officially launch a polio vaccination campaign that will be administered door-to- door for five days, starting from this Thursday. The campaign will reach about 217,674 children under the age of five years in four councils of Sumbawanga municipality, Nkasi, Kalambo and Sumbawanga district councils. Rukwa Regional Immunisation and Vaccination Officer […]
Blantyre, Malawi — One polio case is one too many, global health experts say. And when Malawi announced in February this year that it had detected a polio case in the country’s capital Lilongwe, the alarm was significant, and the response from both the government and global health partners was swift, if not frantic. Detected […]
In the outskirts of Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe, just beyond where paved roads transition to dirt, an undiagnosed polio infection paralysed a three-year-old girl. From one day to the next, the child’s life was changed forever. Africa’s public health community had looked at successes against wild poliovirus as a cause for optimism. In the 1990s, the […]
The Ministry of Health and UNICEF with support from the Global Partnership for Polio Eradication have rolled out the Polio vaccination campaign aimed at reaching out to over 6 million under-five children in Malawi. Inkosi Mtwalo of Mzimba urged all Malawians to take the exercise seriously to ensure all children under the age of five […]
Government has rolled out polio vaccination campaign with a target to vaccinate 2.9 million children within a period of four months. This follows the declaration of public health emergency on 17 February 2022, following a polio case registered in Lilongwe, Area 24 township. Speaking during the launch in Lilongwe, Minister of Health Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda […]
Blantyre, Malawi — Malawi Sunday launched a polio vaccination campaign after the country in February confirmed its first case, 30 years after it eradicated the disease. UNICEF, the World Health Organization and other partners of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative are leading the campaign, which targets over 20 million children in Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique and […]
The Ministry of Health has appealed to journalists in the country to ensure accurate reporting on polio vaccines to avoid unnecessary misinformation and misconception that may lead to public hesitancy towards the intended nationwide immunization campaign. The ministry’s Acting Deputy Director for Preventive Health Services responsible for Health Education, Mavuto Thomas, made the appeal during […]
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Malawi Declares Polio Outbreak
Brazzaville/Lilongwe — The health authorities in Malawi have declared an outbreak of wild poliovirus type 1 after a case was detected in a young child in the capital Lilongwe. This is the first case of wild poliovirus in Africa in more than five years. Africa was declared free of indigenous wild polio in August 2020 […]
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has debunked the report of an outbreak of a new polio virus in some states. The Agency, however, said that the country currently has 395 cases of Circulating Mutant Poliovirus Type 2 (cMPV2) across 27 states and the FCT. The executive director of the NPHCDA, Dr Faisal […]
As the country struggles to contain a polio outbreak confirmed in August last year, the ministry of Health and partners have rolled out a mass polio vaccination exercise targeting 8.8 million children below five years. Speaking at a function held at Wakiso health centre IV, health experts said Uganda, like many other African countries, may […]
<i>”We have heard that our neighbouring states have encountered this outbreak, if we don’t take proactive actions, we would have an unfortunate situation.”</sub> The<a target=”_blank” href=”https://www.facebook.com/PHCFORALL/”> Cross River Primary Healthcare Development Agency</a> said it would vaccinate more than 900,000 children in the state against the circulating vaccine-derived poliomyelitis. The Director-General of the agency, Janet Ekpenyong, […]
Cross River State government has unveiled plan to vaccinate 900,000 children against polio. The exercise will be carried by the state Primary Healthcare Development Agency. Children from the ages 15 and below are the targeted beneficiaries. Wife of Cross River State governor, Dr Linda Ayade gave the figures during the official flag-off of outbreak response […]
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned Nigeria against the laxity of being certified polio-free, saying the country should be vigilant to prevent sudden outbreak of the killer disease. This came as the Ekiti State government has urged mothers to present their children for the special polio vaccine that would be administered between November 13th […]