Polio

News : Polio

World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that until more Nigerian children live above the poverty line, the country would continue to record more cases of polio. (AllAfrica)

CHAIRMAN of Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State, Mr. Godwin Ebosa, has stressed the need for all tiers of government across the country to tackle polio virus. (AllAfrica)

Abia State Government has said it is determined to eradicate polio from the state before the end of next year. (AllAfrica)

The District Chief Executive (DCE) of the Suhum Kraboa Coaltar Assembly, Mr. Sammy Kwabi, last Friday joined residents of the district to drum home the essence of polio immunisation in the country. (AllAfrica)

Former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, has commended Nasarawa State government's efforts towards eradicating guinea worm. (AllAfrica)

GULU district leaders have been called upon to moblise and sensitise parents to take children below five years for polio immunisation. The deputy resident district commissioner, Milton Odongo, made the call while addressing a rally at Kal-Ali Health Centre II in Paicho subcounty, Aswa county. (AllAfrica)

Her one-year-old son firmly tied to her back, Hadiza dragged her two-year old daughter inside the house where she lived in Kafrim-Liman, settlement in Ganjuwa Local government area of Bauchi State and slammed the door shut. (AllAfrica)

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The Aliero Local Government in Kebbi has released N5 million for the improvement of health care services in the area. (AllAfrica)

The three-day special immunization campaign against polio and measles is set to end today as opposed to the initial deadline of Friday, October 9. (AllAfrica)

Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar 111, has called on parents to allow their children to be immunised against polio, saying the vaccines are safe. (AllAfrica)

The Governors' Forum has thrown its weight behind the efforts of the Federal Ministry of Health in the control of malaria and eradication of polio in the country. (AllAfrica)

UGANDA is to carry out a second round of polio immunisation in the north-eastern region after an outbreak of the virus in neighbouring Kenya, a senior health official has said. (AllAfrica)

The Ministry of Health (MOH) is set to launch a three-day immunisation campaign against polio and measles in a bid to curb infant mortality rates - the Minister, Dr. Richard Sezibera revealed yesterday. (AllAfrica)

Kexter Donald Jnr, a polio survivor and Business Administration graduate, is also a freelance writer and online publisher. He talks passionately, in this interview with Head, Covers & Investigation, ISIOMA MADIKE, about his journey through life; how he survived Polio and why he decided to set up a rehabilitation centre to help others overcome the burden of Polio. (AllAfrica)

Worried about the continued spread of Polio in the northern part of the country, the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar yesterday inaugurated a committee consisting of 14 traditional rulers for the eradication of disease. (AllAfrica)

As efforts by the Federal Government to interrupt the spread of the polio virus increases, a new vaccine, Bivalent oral polio vaccine, will be included in the immunization plus days. The new drug is capable of dealing effectively with the type 1 and type 3 polio virus. (AllAfrica)

The fight against polio infection in Nigeria has recorded progress with the number of children paralysed by the virus in 2009 standing at half of what was obtained in 2008. (AllAfrica)

About 600 Nigerian children have been crippled by poliomyelitis and Bauchi State presents the highest polio cases in the North eastern part of the country leaving 313 children crippled in a single community of Azare, a local government identified to have the highest concentration of the virus in the world. This is no doubt the reason Bauchi State government is stepping up the fight against the debilitating disease. (AllAfrica)

Fourteen new cases of wild polio virus have been reported in 10 local government areas of Yobe State, Dr. Isa Adamu, the representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Yobe State told newsmen in Damaturu yesterday. (AllAfrica)

HE IS an exception of some sort: intelligent, resilient and determined to succeed. This determination has somewhat pull him through the most excruciating moments of life, as he trudges on, focusing only on his vision and ambition, which he believes would change the poverty of his youth and others like him. He seems to be winning the titanic war he embarked alone as he is fast inching towards becoming an advocate for educating and rehabilitating the less privileged. (AllAfrica)

Newly installed President of Jos South Rotary Club, Chief Folarin Ero-Phillips, has said since the launch of Polio Plus Programme in 1985, the club has contributed over $800 million to the cause of eradicating polio in the world, in addition to countless volunteer hours logged by Rotary Club members world wide.Ero-Phillips lamented that the endemic wild polio-virus had been eliminated from all but four countries, including Afghanistan, India, Nigeria and Pakistan. (AllAfrica)

Do you think the government is doing much in the area of health to improve the quality of life for children? (AllAfrica)

Nigeria is one of the four countries where poliomyelitis, a killer disease, still exists in the world. Other countries include Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. Currently, the country has about 350,000 cases in seven states of the federation with potentials to spread to other states. But at a stakeholders' summit in Lagos last week, Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola canvassed efforts to kick the plague out of Nigeria. (AllAfrica)

About 367 polio cases have so far been recorded in August across 26 states in Nigeria.A report by the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) showed a dramatic reduction in the wild polio virus type 1 which is being identified as the most dangerous and capable of causing paralyses immediately, if a child gets infected. (AllAfrica)

TWO suspected cases of polio have been reported in Amuru district. (AllAfrica)

Three hundred and sixty seven cases of polio were recorded in 26 states of the federation in the month of August, National Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), has said. (AllAfrica)

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), yesterday, received a grant of N1.2 billion (US $ 8.5 million) from the Japanese government for its child survival programmes in Nigeria. (AllAfrica)

The Government of Côte d'Ivoire is wrapping up a nationwide campaign to immunize children against polio today, carried out with the help of the United Nations mission which provided logistical support to the effort to stamp out the highly infectious and incurable viral disease. (AllAfrica)

The dreaded paralysing disease stamped out in the industrialized world, is spreading in Nigeria, the Associated Press reported weekend. It quoted health officials as saying in some cases, it's caused by the vaccine used to fight it. (AllAfrica)

The dreaded paralysing disease stamped out in the developed orld, is spreading in Nigeria, the Associated Press reported weekend. It quoted health officials as saying in some cases, it's caused by the vaccine used to fight it. (AllAfrica)

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