Tag: polio

According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Nigeria currently has the world’s highest number of unvaccinated children.

The global target, he noted, is to reduce the number of zero-dose children by 25 per cent by 2025 and ...

He called on traditional leaders to encourage parents and caregivers to present their children for vaccination during the campaign to ...

"We will not relent until Kano is completely free from the virus,” he said.

She noted that two of the cases were detected through Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) surveillance, while the third was identified ...

UNICEF issued a strong call to action, urging the Jigawa State Government, and indeed all states in Nigeria, to take ...

Mr Bashir said the agency had deployed 2,778 personnel to ensure a successful immunisation in all the 21 local government ...

He revealed that the state has 1,636 health facilities providing routine immunisation services for children

She called on all stakeholders to ensure massive awareness campaign before the commencement of the exercise to ensure high level ...

He noted that despite strong political commitment, Nigeria has continued to face operational challenges hindering the complete eradication of poliovirus

The minister highlighted ongoing challenges in Nigeria’s polio eradication efforts, to include gaps in vaccination team selection, training, accountability and ...

The Senate said the funds will support health interventions and address challenges previously financed by US government foreign aid before ...

Mr Bowale stated that during this period, vaccination teams will visit residential homes, schools, churches, mosques, gated estates, and other ...

Nigeria was declared polio-free in 2020 by the World Health Organisation, but hundreds of cases of the vaccine-derived type have ...

This was one of the resolutions reached on Wednesday at the 144th edition of National Economic Council Meeting (NEC) chaired ...

The number of children reached in central Gaza during the first two days of the campaign launched on Sunday exceeded ...

The global bodies said the stagnation in global immunisation coverage since 2022 and the failure to return to 2019 levels ...

The state government is about to begin the second phase of polio immunisation in the state.

The global health body said as many as 20 million children have been spared disability and are walking today.

According to a statement on its website, the Gates Foundation has contributed nearly $5 billion to the polio eradication initiative.

Malawi recently declared an outbreak of polio after a young child in the country’s capital, Lilongwe, developed the disease.

Nigeria, with its estimated population of over 200 million, relies on imported vaccines to prevent and treat diseases.’

Mr Atiku said if there are severe consequences for parents who refuse to send their children to school, Nigeria would ...

“We have heard that our neighbouring states have encountered this outbreak, if we don’t take proactive actions, we would have ...

According to the WHO data, 60 mass immunisation campaigns are currently postponed in 50 countries, putting around 228 million people ...