27 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 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…
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 moreHamisu Ahmadu and Ahmadu Sani had no idea of a law making it compulsory for all children under five years to be vaccinated against polio when they came in their wheelchairs to the Katsina Central Market June 14. But they…
Read moreOn the sixth attempt, Mike Ajayi, teacher at Ajoke Nursery and Primary School, Ilorin, got through to one of the telephone numbers scrolled on the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) station listed as open lines for pare…
Read more"Reach every country, district, woman with proven health interventions" - WHO Regional Director for Africa Abuja, Nigeria, 7 April 2005 -- The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Africa, Dr. Luis Gom…
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