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Protecting every child in Nigeria from poliovirus | WHO | Regional Office for Africa – WHO | Regional Office for Africa

Minna, 23 August, 2023 - In the remote Nigerian village of Bororo-Kambari, five-year-old Fati Isah and her two siblings are lining up with other children their age and younger, preparing to be vaccinated against polio. “My mother says immunization is important and we should receive the vaccine,” she says proudly.In their village, located in Katcha Local Government Area (LGA) in Niger state in north-central Nigeria, 2 509 687 children benefited from an 18-day mass vaccination campaign, which ended on 16August 2023, to boost their immunity against Circulating Variant Poliovirus (cVPV2).This...
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