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Somalia is again polio-free

10 000 health workers stop polio virus through immunization Somalia is again polio-free, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) announced today, calling it a 'historic achievement' in public health. Somalia has not reported a case since 25 March 2007, a major landmark in the intensified eradication effort launched last year to wipe out the disease in the remaining few strongholds. Against a backdrop of widespread conflict, large population movements and a dearth of functioning...

WHO country boss on measles campaign

As ill-health leads to deeper poverty, the attainment by all people of the highest possible level of health is the World Health Organisation’s cornerstone. In an interview with the Daily Observer  following a tripartite effort by Unicef, the American Red Cross and WHO to eradicate measles through a week-long campaign that   ended recently, Dr Nestor Shivute, WHO country-representative has said that the target coverage for the immunisation is 95 per cent if not 100 per cent. On his...

Measles campaign covers 375 villages in URR

In a spirited drive to totally eradicate measles in the region, 375 villages in the Upper River Region (URR) with a joint population of 36,000 children between the age group of 6-9 months have been covered in the measles campaign within 5 days by 33 teams. Me asles kills over 700,000 children globally and in The Gambia, it is reported to have been responsible for epidemics that have resulted in the death of children even though it is a vaccine preventable disease. Mathew Baldeh, Unicef health...

NIGERIA: Polio vaccine back in the headlines

A report in an American medical journal that children in northern Nigeria have been infected with polio by the vaccine designed to prevent it have raised fears that Nigeria’s already lagging polio prevention efforts could be further delayed. Such vaccine-derived outbreaks have occurred previously in other parts of the world, usually in regions where there is low polio immunisation coverage, but the 69 cases recorded in Nigeria are the largest on record, the scientists said in the study. The...