Health authorities in Burundi have announced that they had identified eight samples of polio, marking the country's first outbreak of the disease in over 30 years. The World ... Read more »
Measles vaccination coverage has steadily declined since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2021, a record high of nearly 40 million children missed a measles vaccine dose: ... Read more »
Emergency Operations Centres (EOCs) first used in Nigeria during the national polio response, were valuable assets in Nigeria's polio response, and they continue to be a vital ... Read more »
African health ministers have met to seek ways of ramping up measures to halt the outbreak of Wild Poliovirus Type 1 in southern Africa, where the virus has been detected in Read more »
Health authorities in Mozambique declared an outbreak of wild poliovirus on May 18, 2022 after confirming that a child in the north-eastern Tete province had contracted the d Read more »
Malawi and U.N. agencies have launched an emergency response to the country's polio outbreak, the first in Africa in five years. The plan includes mass immunisation of childr Read more »
August 25 marks the first anniversary of a milestone that took over 30 years to achieve: Afric Read more »
Four decades ago, an estimated 350,000 people were paralysed each year by the poliovirus in more than 125 countries. This led the World Health Assembly in 1988 to adopt a ... Read more »
The Africa Regional Certification Commission has declared the continent free of endemic polio after a decades-long campaign against the disease. Nigeria, which accounted for more ... Read more »
When unfounded rumours led to a vaccine boycott in Nigeria, some traditional leaders in the north, teamed up with the government to lead the polio campaign on the importance of ... Read more »
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