24 July 2006 - Alhaji Sayyadi Abubakar Mahmood, the 75-year old Emir of Ringim, is leading by example in Jigawa State, monitoring immunization activities in over 60 villages and hamlets at personal cost, to ensure that a…
Read more24 July 2006 -- Sardauna Local Government Area (LGA), home of the Mambilla Plateau – famous for its unique settlers, steep inclines, lush vegetation and temperate weather, is one of the five hardest to reach areas in Tar…
Read moreIn 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 …
Read more27 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…
Read moreAbuja, 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…
Read more17 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…
Read moreMallam 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…
Read more2004 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…
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