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By | October 26, 2024

The Final Push: Overcoming the Last Barriers to Global Polio Eradication

By Dr Anirejuoritse Chima-Oduko & and Yusuf YusufariAs World Polio Day is being celebrated, the reemergence of polio in Gaza serves as a reminder polio anywhere is a threat everywhere and we all must call for sustained vigilance and effort for global eradication. There is a need for renewed commitment and global cooperation. Success stories, […]

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World Polio Day 2022: Is Polio Becoming a Wicked Problem?

By | October 24, 2022

“While polio exists anywhere, it’s a threat everywhere” — Ian Riseley, President, The Rotary Foundation Nigeria was declared wild poliovirus free on the 25th August 2020. The news was met with a lot of celebration. The long-fought battle towards a wild polio free status had been won in Africa. Nigeria was the final country in which this was […]

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Maintaining Nigeria’s Wild Poliovirus-Free Status: A Critical Step for Long Life for All

By | April 27, 2022

By Onyinye Oranezi and Thelma Chioma Abeku (Lead Writers) The launch of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) a little over three decades ago, which birthed the drive for a polio free world has resulted in significant health advances. Indeed, before the COVID-19 pandemic, polio eradication hinted at what the world could accomplish by working […]

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AVADAR: How digital health fast-tracked Nigeria’s drive to eradicate polio

By | October 5, 2020

Polio, a contagious disease caused by the poliomyelitis virus is transmitted primarily when stool from someone infected contaminates foods, drinks or water sources. It invades the nervous system and could, in a matter of hours, lead to complete paralysis. On the 24th of August 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) officially declared Nigeria and Africa […]

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Nigeria: The long crawl to polio eradication - Op-Ed

By | April 27, 2019

Editor’s Note: Today’s piece is an OpEd from renowned Virologist and Chair of Nigeria Expert Review Committee on Poliomyelitis Eradication and Routine Immunisation, Prof. Oyewale Tomori. This World Immunisation Week, he explores Nigeria’s long road towards polio eradication and gives insights into exactly how far we still have to go before we can confidently assert […]

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The last mile: On the frontlines of polio eradication in Kano State

By | August 20, 2018

In August 2016, the last poliovirus case in Nigeria was diagnosed in Monguno Local Government Area in the North-Eastern state of Borno. Since then, those working in the polio space, nationally and globally, have worked hard and are watching vigilantly with bated breath as Nigeria again comes close to being declared polio-free by 2019, incidentally […]

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