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By Nigeria Health Watch | August 8, 2025

Local Voices Driving Trust and Demand for Polio Vaccines in Bauchi and Kebbi States

Solomon Yemi Oladimeji (Lead writer) In Northern Nigeria, where health systems often come face to face with socio-cultural beliefs, change does not arrive in white coats or government-issued badges. It comes in sandals, sits on prayer mats, and speaks the local language. April 2025 was not just another month in Nigeria’s long battle against polio; […]

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Sustaining the tempo; How Kano is succeeding in its fight against Polio

By Bashar Abubakar | January 27, 2020

As the early morning harmattan wind blew through the crowded Fagge area of Kano, about thirty people, mostly women, gathered inside the Galadima Primary Health Centre (PHC) in Fagge C ward. In teams of three, they prepared to collect vials containing Oral Polio Vaccines (OPVs) from the PHC, as they would each morning for the […]

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