24 July 2006 -- The rough road connecting them speaks of the challenges both local government areas (LGA) have faced in the race to rid Benue State of the wild polio virus (WPV), but Agatu LGA appears to have put the wor…
Lire la suite24 July 2006 -- The faint mark on the wall showing that no child in the house was eligible for polio vaccination was misleading. Idris Mohammed , motorcycle mechanic and head of this household in Kofar Kudu Quarters of J…
Lire la suiteIn Kaduna State, Town Hall meetings are opening a new frontier for addressing community compliance in the polio eradication programme and ensuring community ownership of immunization. The meetings, which started in June …
Lire la suite27 January 2006 -- Abdullahi Wamzan, a community leader, watched with satisfaction as Attahiru Mohammed Chidawa, a trained health worker, vaccinated the children of Unguwan Magaji Lagan, a Kamberi Settlement in the Magam…
Lire la suiteAbuja, 6 December 2005 -- In order to achieve scaling-up universal access to HIV prevention, care and treatment, the World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended that countries adopt a policy of free access at the poi…
Lire la suite17 November 2005 - His may be a family of nine with three cripples – including himself and his wife, but Aminu Ahmed Tudun-Wada, Chairman, Polio Victims Trust Association (PVTA), is determined to ensure that polio crippl…
Lire la suite2004 was a period of uncertainty, but at the height of the controversy over the oral polio vaccine (OPV), the wife of the Governor of Yobe State, Hajia (Dr) Maryam Abba Bukar Ibrahim, braved the odds on March 2, by publi…
Lire la suiteMallam Alifa Liman, a retired health worker, is becoming the anchor of a movement to get the Izalas of Bama Local Government Area (LGA), Borno State, to support polio eradication. His involvement started this February wh…
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