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Nigeria’s Polio Eradication Programme - 2019
Description
In 1988, the World Health Assembly passed a resolution to eradicate polio by the year 2000. Then, polio was endemic in 125 countries across five continents and paralysed 1000 children every day, some 350,000 children every year. Such an ambitious task required a mobilisation of efforts that cut across borders and institutions. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) was launched, the largest public health initiative the world has ever known, with the common purpose of vaccinating children in every corner of the globe against polio.
In August 2019, Nigeria marked three years since last reporting a case of wild poliovirus.
After Modu Busami developed sudden weakness in his limbs and a stool sample confirmed that he had the wild polio virus, a rapid reaction against this disease occurred: vaccinating children immediately, not just those people around him, but also those from across the region and beyond.
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Read more: https://www.afro.who.int/news/three-years-without-case-wild-polio-virus-government-nigeria-warns-against-complacency
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07/31/2019
Country, area, WHO office
Nigeria
City
Monguno
State/Province
Borno State
Location
Kuya
WHO Region
AFRO
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