Somalia: Teach Us About Polio in Our Own Language - Somali's Maay Speakers
[allAfrica] Vaccination is crucial for preventing the spread of the polio, a highly contagious disease that can lead to paralysis and even death. But widespread, ongoing conflict in Somalia means that vaccination campaigns are hampered by restricted access to conflict zones, and the displacement of communities - making it difficult for healthcare workers to reach vulnerable populations. The destruction of health infrastructure, disruption of healthcare services, and compromised safety of healthcare workers (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 27, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: East Africa External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa Polio Somalia Source Type: news
Somalia: Teach Us About Polio in Our Own Language - Somalia's Maay Speakers
[allAfrica] Vaccination is crucial for preventing the spread of the polio, a highly contagious disease that can lead to paralysis and even death. But widespread, ongoing conflict in Somalia means that vaccination campaigns are hampered by restricted access to conflict zones, and the displacement of communities - making it difficult for healthcare workers to reach vulnerable populations. The destruction of health infrastructure, disruption of healthcare services, and compromised safety of healthcare workers (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - November 27, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: East Africa External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa Polio Somalia Source Type: news
Nigeria: Unicef Warns Bauchi Residents Against Rejecting Polio Vaccine
[Leadership] United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has pleaded with parents and guardians in Bauchi State to allow their wards to receive second term of polio vaccine. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 13, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Nigeria Polio West Africa Source Type: news
Nigeria: 2.3 Million Children Receive Polio Vaccine in Anambra - Commissioner
[Premium Times] The state government is about to begin the second phase of polio immunisation in the state. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - November 10, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Health and Medicine Nigeria Polio West Africa Source Type: news
Childhood Vaccine Exemptions Reach Highest Level Ever — Upping Risk For Outbreaks Of Polio, Measles And More
More families with kindergarteners have been granted vaccine exemptions in the United States than ever before, the CDC said Thursday. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - November 9, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes Staff Tags: Business /business Innovation /innovation Healthcare /healthcare Breaking breaking-news topline Source Type: news
Zimbabwe Starts Polio Vaccinations After Outbreak in Capital
(Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Sharing ‘ Real-Time ’ Data, Consistent, Simple Messaging Helps
Aradhiya Khan, 25, a transwoman, got her vaccination in the middle of the night in July 2021, when the centre was less crowded, and stood in the women's line as there was none for her gender. By Zofeen EbrahimKARACHI, Oct 31 2023 (IPS) After months of warding off appeals from his employers to get vaccinated for the COVID-19 disease, Mohammad Yusuf, 24, working as a live-in domestic worker in Karachi’s Clifton area, finally relented and got his first shot.
“I believed that anyone who took the vaccine would die within two years,” he told IPS. He said he got this information from social media.
The people who finally con...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - October 31, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Zofeen Ebrahim Tags: Asia-Pacific COVID-19 Development & Aid Education Featured Headlines Health Human Rights TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Pakistan Source Type: news
South Africa: SA Commemorates World Polio Day
[SAnews.gov.za] The Department of Health has reminded parents and caregivers to ensure children are up to date with child immunisation schedules to prevent vaccine-preventable diseases, including polio. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 24, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Polio South Africa Southern Africa Source Type: news
South Asian Community Health Workers Say Their Work is Work
Community health workers demand to be recognised as formal workers with pay and benefits to match. Credit: Zofeen T. EbrahimBy Zofeen EbrahimKARACHI, Oct 19 2023 (IPS) “Professionally, I am still where I was 23 years ago when I started working as a lady health worker (LHW),” said a disgruntled Yasmin Siddiq, 47, from Karachi. “I will probably retire in the same capacity, as a Grade 5 government servant, without any hope for upward mobility.”
The idea behind the Lady Health Worker Programme (LHWP), the brainchild of Pakistan’s late prime minister Benazir Bhutto, began in 1994 with the purpose of “training women...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - October 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Zofeen Ebrahim Tags: Asia-Pacific Editors' Choice Featured Gender Headlines Health Human Rights Inequality TerraViva United Nations Women's Health IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Pakistan South Asia Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe Aims for 95 Percent Polio Vaccination Coverage in Latest Campaign
[263Chat] Government is targeting to vaccinate 95 percent of the over two million children under the age of five in the latest polio vaccination campaign launched in the resort town of Victoria Falls early this week. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - October 13, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Health and Medicine Polio Southern Africa Zimbabwe Source Type: news
Africa: New Funding to Ensure 370 Million Children Receive Polio Vaccinations and to Boost Health Innovation in Low-Income Countries
[WHO] 11 October 2023: Brussels, Belgium: Today, the European Commission, the European Investment Bank and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a new financing partnership to address critical global health opportunities: eradicating polio and ensuring that innovations in health are more accessible to the people who need them most. The World Health Organization and UNICEF, as implementing partners for the polio funding, will deploy the resources to eradicate polio, support the distribution of other (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 11, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Africa External Relations Governance Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa Source Type: news
Member States urged to go all in to end polio during meeting of the Regional Subcommittee for ...
10 October 2023 ‒ The urgency of ending polio was impressed upon Member States at the ninth meeting of the Regional Subcommittee for Polio Eradication and Outbreaks in the Eastern Mediterranean, held during the 70th session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean Endemic wild poliovirus is present only in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, in just 2 countries: Afghanistan and Pakistan. Polio has no cure, and the strategy for its eradication is based on immunizing every child, through multiple high-quality vaccination campaigns.
At the meeting, Member States and Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPE...
Source: WHO EMRO News - October 10, 2023 Category: Middle East Health Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: Fourth Round of Polio Vaccination Launched
[The Herald] Rumbidzayi Zinyuke in Victoria Falls (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - October 10, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Health and Medicine Polio Southern Africa Zimbabwe Source Type: news
Kenya: MOH to Mount Second Oral Polio Vaccine Campaign From Saturday
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Ministry of Health is set to run its second Oral Polio Vaccine campaign for 2023 from Saturday in joint efforts with the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI). (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - October 5, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: East Africa Health and Medicine Kenya Polio Source Type: news
Pakistan launches anti-polio vaccine drive targeting 44M children amid tight security
Pakistan has launched its second nationwide anti-polio campaign of the year Monday in an effort to inoculate 44 million children under the age of 5 (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - October 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
