Guard Against Resurgence Of Polio, Vaccinate Your Children, UNICEF

The United Nations Children’s Fund UNICEF, has urged Nigerians to be on guard against the resurgence of Polio in the country by ensuring that their children participate in the country’s routine immunisation. After over three decades, Nigeria on August 25, 2020 declared polio free by the World Health Organisation, WHO following the struggle to end poliovirus in 1988 championed by global bodies including WHO, UNICEF, and the Rotary Foundation.

Also, the United State Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, and The Gates Foundation spearheaded the campaign through the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, GPEI. Making the call during a 3 day Media Dialogue in Yola, Adamawa State, UNICEF Communication for Development Specialist, Ms Elizabeth Onitolo identified vaccine preventable diseases as one of the major causes of death among under children in Nigeria.