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05/06/2012
Aisha and her grandfather
SOKOTO (Nigeria)– “We never felt the need to get our children immunized, but now, I will do my best to mobilize our community,” says Muhammad Bello, the grandfather of a 2-year-old Aisha who fell victim to the wild poliovirus j...
04/06/2012
Reaffirms Japan’s commitment to polio eradication
TOKYO, Japan (June 4, 2012) – Rotary International President-elect Sakuji Tanaka heard reassuring words from Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda regarding Japan’s continued support of polio eradication,...
30/05/2012
Senior Somali government officials launch polio campaign
Mogadishu, Somalia , 27 May 2013 – Mothers and children lined up patiently here today for polio vaccination, under a high sun and intense heat. Their vaccinator was the Prime Minister himself,...
24/05/2012
New cases at lowest levels ever, but funding gap threatens progress
Geneva, Switzerland 24 May 2012– Despite the dramatic drop in polio cases in the last year, the threat of continued transmission due to funding and immunization gaps has driven the Gl...
23/05/2012
WHO reports on Polio Eradication in the African Region in 2011
Brazzaville, 23 May 2012 -- The number of wild poliovirus (WPV) cases in the World Health Organization (WHO) African Region dropped from 657 in 2010 to 350 in 2011 representing a 47% d...
17/05/2012
Wild viruses and wildfires have two things in common. If neglected, they can spread out of control. If handled properly, they can be stamped out for good. Today, the flame of polio is near extinction — but sparks in three countries threaten to ignite a glo...
11/05/2012
Volunteer community mobilizers’ network fully operational in Kebbi State, northern Nigeria
KEBBI (Nigeria), 11th May 2012 – Selected from their respective settlements (villages), 200 volunteer community mobilizers (covering 200 high risk settl...
10/05/2012
Polio transmission is heating up in northwestern Nigeria just as populations move back along traditional stock routes and into areas now affected by conflict, such as Mali.
In Nigeria, authorities are focusing on making sure vaccination activities are wel...
08/05/2012
Before dawn on the first day of the National Immunization Days in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Vaccinator Antoine Ngusu Hely is fully awake despite the early hour.
At the health center of Kitutu, a storage site in the health zone of Nyemba in...
03/05/2012
The Polio Heroes of Chad –social mobilizers, vaccinators, community and religious leaders
30/04/2012
Rotary International recognises some of polio eradication’s biggest names
30 April 2012 - Under normal circumstances, the president of an African country and a Bollywood megastar wouldn’t have much in common. But Nigeria’s President Goodluck J...
22/04/2012
Protecting our world from polio and other vaccine-preventable diseases
22 April – This month will end with 394 million children having been vaccinated against polio, culminating in the first-ever World Immunization Week from 21-28 April. The w...
06/04/2012
Everyone’s effort is required to eradicate polio from Nigeria
6 April 2012 - “I really want to improve the health situation of all the children in my communities, by immunizing them against child killer diseases like polio,” says Saudutu, a 37-year-ol...
