Malawi: Malawi Extends Polio Vaccination to 15-Year-Olds
[VOA] Blantyre, Malawi -- Malawi is extending the maximum age of children eligible for the polio vaccination from 5 to 15. Since the discovery last year of its first polio case 30 years after the country eradicated the disease, the number of cases has increased to five this year -- the latest victim being 14 years old. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - September 15, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Health and Medicine Malawi Polio Southern Africa Source Type: news
Africa: Health Leaders Vow to Enhance Response As Africa Marks a Year Without Wild Polio Detection
[WHO-AFRO] Gaborone -- As the African region marks one year since the last confirmed detection of wild poliovirus type 1, Ministers of Health and other health leaders gathering for the Seventy-third session of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for Africa today pledged to intensify efforts to end all forms of the virus. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - September 1, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Africa External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa Polio Source Type: news
Africa: Statement of the Thirty-Sixth Meeting of the Polio Ihr Emergency Committee
[WHO] The thirty-sixth meeting of the Emergency Committee under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) on the international spread of poliovirus was convened by the WHO Director-General on 16 August 2023 with committee members and advisers attending via video conference, supported by the WHO Secretariat. The Emergency Committee reviewed the data on wild poliovirus (WPV1) and circulating vaccine derived polioviruses (cVDPV) in the context of global target of eradication of WPV and cessation of (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - September 1, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Africa External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa Polio Source Type: news
Cameroon: Reports of Polio Outbreak After Largest Vaccination Programme Since 2020
[VOA] Yaounde -- Cameroon officials say a fifth case of polio was reported in the capital, Yaounde, this week, despite the launching of a new polio vaccination campaign in the central African country and its neighbors. Health officials are increasing surveillance and encouraging parents, many of whom still resist vaccination programs, to have their children inoculated. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - August 30, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Cameroon Central Africa Health and Medicine Polio West Africa Source Type: news
Kenya: Kunle Adeyanju's 13,000km Bike Ride to Raise Polio Awareness
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- While riding across the world has been embraced by many travel fanatics for leisure and adventure, it is a different case for Nigerian motorcycle rider and motivational speaker Kunle Adeyanju. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - July 26, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: East Africa Health and Medicine Kenya Polio Source Type: news
Malawi: Mchinji Parents Give Overwhelming Support to Oral Polio Vaccination
[Nyasa Times] Parents and guardians in Mchinji district gave overwhelming support to the supplementary polio immunization campaign, which ran from July 12 - 15 2023. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - July 18, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Health and Medicine Malawi Polio Southern Africa Source Type: news
Malawi: Malawi's Supplementary Polio Immunization Campaign Starts July 12
[Nyasa Times] The Government of Malawi, through the Ministry of Health, has announced that it will kick-start the supplementary polio immunization campaign on 12 July 2023 and will run up to 15th July 2023. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - July 12, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Health and Medicine Malawi Polio Southern Africa Source Type: news
Africa: WHO Director-General's Remarks At the Polio Transition Global Vision Stakeholder Forum - 25 April 2023
[WHO] Esteemed guests, dear colleagues and friends, (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - April 28, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: Polio - Leading Virologist Offers a Beginner's Guide to the Different Viruses and Vaccines
[The Conversation Africa] On 17 March 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that health officials in Burundi and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) had detected cases of vaccine-derived poliovirus. The WHO said the Burundian government had declared the detection of the virus a national public health emergency after three cases were confirmed. The Conversation Africa's Wale Fatade spoke to virologist Oyewale Tomori, who maps out the terrain of polio viruses, and their mutations, as well as what's happening on the vacci (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - March 30, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Sudan: Health Ministry Hails National Polio Vaccination Campaign a Success
[Dabanga] Khartoum -- Reports from the various states of Sudan indicate the success of the first round of the national campaign to respond to the polio epidemic and eliminate vitamin A deficiency by more than 90 per cent in all localities in the states. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - March 27, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Burundi: Country Announces First Polio Outbreak in More Than 30 Years
[UN News] Health authorities in Burundi on Friday said that they had detected eight samples of polio, officially declaring the landlocked African nation's first outbreak in more than 30 years. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - March 18, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: High-Level Emergency Ministerial Meeting On Cholera Epidemics, Polio and Climate-Related Public Health Emergencies
[Africa CDC] Lilongwe -- The Ministers of Health and Ministers of Water and Sanitation, as well as their senior technical experts from 12 African Union Member States, attended the High-Level Emergency Ministerial meeting on Cholera Epidemics and Climate-Related Public Health Emergencies in Lilongwe, Malawi from 9th - 10th March 2023. The Ministers agreed on joint collaborative measures to combat the spread of cholera and ensure country preparedness and readiness for climate-change-related health emergencies. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - March 13, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Cameroon: Covid-19 Undermines Effort to Eliminate Polio
This article was supported by Global Health Strategies. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - March 1, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: Statement of the Thirty-Fourth Polio IHR Emergency Committee
[WHO] The thirty-fourth meeting of the Emergency Committee under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) on the international spread of poliovirus was convened by the WHO Director-General on 25 January 2023 with committee members and advisers attending via video conference, supported by the WHO Secretariat. The Emergency Committee reviewed the data on wild poliovirus (WPV1) and circulating vaccine derived polioviruses (cVDPV) in the context of global target of eradication of WPV and cessation of outbre (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - February 3, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: Kagame Rallies Global Community to Mobilise U.S.$2.2 Billion to Eradicate Polio
[New Times] President Paul Kagame has called for more efforts to mobilize another $2.2 billion that is left to raise toward the global polio eradication initiative. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - December 12, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
