Polio

[Daily Observer]Janjangbureh -Health authorities and other stakeholders have disclosed plans to vaccinate about 48, 000 children in the Central River Region (CRR) in the upcoming nationwide polio immunisation campaign, slated from 24th-27th May, 2013. (AllAfrica)

[Daily Trust]Coverage for routine immunisation is expected to grow from about 60 per cent in the first quarter of this year to more than 90 per cent by year end, National Primary Health Care Development Agency boasted this week. (AllAfrica)

[This Day]The International Islamic Fiqh Academy has expressed support to the polio vaccination in the country, stressing that it has issued a fatwa on anybody or group of persons, who attack health workers carrying out the polio vaccination in the country. (AllAfrica)

[This Day]The Association of Polio Survivors of Nigeria has made a fervent call to all parents in Nigeria to get all their children below the age of five vaccinated against the polio virus in each and every immunization round to save them from the crippling disease. (AllAfrica)

[ANGOP]Luanda -The vaccination of children under five years, in Luanda, will continue until next weekend, in order cover all the little ones, it was learned, Monday. (AllAfrica)

[Daily Trust]Kaduna -Executive Secretary of the Kaduna State Primary Health Care Agency, Dr. Sufiyan M. Babale, has said that since January this year, the state has been immunizing over three million children in its monthly Immunization Plus Days (IPDs) campaign. (AllAfrica)

[Daily Trust]The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) has allocated $18 million to polio eradication in Nigeria through a grant that will support surveillance and response system, increase targeted polio vaccination campaigns and strengthen the routine immunization system. (AllAfrica)

[Daily Trust]Kaduna -Two cases of Wild Polio Virus had been recorded in Tafa Local Government Area of Niger and Fagge in Kano respectively, Executive Secretary of Kaduna State Primary Health Care Agency, Dr. Sufiyan M. Babale has said. (AllAfrica)

[Daily Trust]Minna -Executive Director of the Niger State Primary Health Care Development Agency (NSPHCDA) Dr. Aliyu Mohammed has described the claim of the emergence of a new case of wild polio virus in the state as untrue. He said the discovery of a new case of polio was made in the Federal Capital Territory. (AllAfrica)

[ANGOP]Luanda -Two million children under five years of age will be immunized in Luanda during the vaccination campaign against polio started Friday and scheduled to end on Sunday, 12. (AllAfrica)

[This Day]Abuja -An international agency, Global Health Strategies (GHS), has declared that total eradication of polio-myelitis is possible by 2018, if the $5.5 billion global intervention fund can be achieved. (AllAfrica)

[Vanguard]A comprehensive six year plan to end polio through strengthening immunisation systems and vaccinating one billion children has been presented by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, GPEI. (AllAfrica)

[Daily Trust]Kaduna -Over 400 global experts from 80 countries have endorsed a new comprehensive eradication strategy to secure a lasting polio-free world by 2018. (AllAfrica)

[SA Govt]This morning, more than 100 children under the age of five received their first dose of polio drops and measles vaccine at Thusanang Daycare Centre in Muldersdrift, West Rand. (AllAfrica)

[Daily Trust]Jos -The 3rd African Vaccination Week (AVW), organized by the African Region of World Health Organization (WHO) April 22 to 28, 2013, came under the theme, 'Save Lives. Prevent disabilities. Vaccinate', and accomplished heightened continent-wide awareness of the place of routine immunization against vaccine-preventable diseases. All 46 member-states of WHO in the African region participated in efforts to strengthen immunization programmes around the continent against diphtheria, haemophilus influenzae serotype (AllAfrica)

[Vanguard]As Nigeria battles rejection of polio vaccination in the North, renowned Virologist, Professor Oyewale Tomori has alleged that Nigerian leaders are yet to show enough commitment needed to attain the global eradication deadline by 2018. (AllAfrica)

[SA Govt]The National Polio and Measles and Polio Campaign takes place annually: (AllAfrica)

[Vanguard]Sokoto -The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa'ad Abubakar 111, has appealed to parents in the North to allow their children to be immunised with the polio vaccine. (AllAfrica)

[Premium Times]The Sultan of Sokoto, Sa'ad Abubakar, has appealed to parents to allow their children be immunised with the polio vaccine, saying it is safe to be vaccinated. (AllAfrica)

[Daily Trust]Jos -Global leaders have pledged their support for a new six-year plan to deliver a polio-free world by 2018, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has indicated. (AllAfrica)

[Daily Trust]To reinforce his argument, Aliyu reported yet another OPV test by the trio of "Professor Emeritus Umaru Shehu, foremost public health consultant who was the first chairman of the National Programme on Immunization (NPI), Professor Herbert Coker, a pharmaceutical scientist and chemist from the University of Lagos and Dr Rafindadi led the federal government delegation to South Africa in November 2003 with 96 samples of the Oral Polio Vaccines (OPV)"; and these eminent personalities had discovered the samples (AllAfrica)

[This Day]The Minister of State for Health, Dr. Muhammad Ali Pate, Sunday appealed to Islamic clerics in the North who have been preaching against polio immunisation to desist forthwith in the interest of the health of the children in the region. (AllAfrica)

[UN News]Polio eradication efforts are the focus of the United Nations-backed Global Vaccine Summit which also aims to protect millions of children from diseases like measles and tetanus through inoculations. (AllAfrica)

[IRIN]Juba -Through frequent door-to-door polio immunization campaigns, South Sudan has vaccinated more than 94 percent of children under age five against the disease, according to the Ministry of Health. The immunization effort has been one of the country's few health success stories since it achieved independence a year and a half ago. (AllAfrica)

[Unicef]Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates -Pledges announced will enable more than 2.7 billion children to be vaccinated (AllAfrica)

[Daily Trust]The Minister of State for Health, Dr Muhammad Pate, has expressed shock that more than 1,000 children have been paralysed by the wild polio virus largely due to the rejection of immunisation in the northern part of the country. (AllAfrica)

[This Day]The battle against polio is an extraordinary example of what can be achieved when we work together. This terrible disease, as my generation knows well,once cast a shadow over childhood across the world. Before the development of an effective vaccine nearly 60 years ago, it paralyzed and killed up to half a million people every year. (AllAfrica)

[Daily Trust]THE Katsina State Primary Healthcare Development Agency (PHCDA) has said the state is now free from all cases of polio. (AllAfrica)

[Daily Trust]One thing that regularly recurs in the story of Holocaust deniers is the fact that they were forced to deny the dubious historical event by the sheer weight of intimidation that visited all those who had questioned the Holocaust before them. In these days of freedoms of speech and expression as well as some extreme forms of human rights; such as the right to satanic gay marriages, it is amazing that questioning a simple historical reality (or is it fiction?) could invite the wrath of state establishments a (AllAfrica)

[Daily Trust]As a responsible citizen, a Pharmaceutical Chemist, trained in one of the most reputable universities in Nigeria, I wish to make my position categorically clear following attempts in high and low places to ridicule my painstakingly cultivated reputation, based on simple routine chemical analysis, findings and recommendations I made following the raging controversies on polio vaccines in Nigeria. (AllAfrica)

[ThinkAfricaPress]Hundreds of scientists, doctors and other experts from around the world launched the Scientific Declaration on Polio Eradication last week, declaring that an end to the paralysing disease is achievable, and endorsing a comprehensive new strategy to secure a lasting polio-free world by 2018. The declaration's launch coincides with the 58th anniversary of the announcement of Jonas Salk's revolutionary vaccine. (AllAfrica)