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Will Africa be free of wild polio?

Evaluation towards certification begins at 69th session of WHO Regional Committee in Brazzaville  Will Africa region join the four WHO regions that have successfully eradicated the wild polio virus? This is the big poser expected…

Nigeria records new polio cases

Eradication bid suffers setback as three new cases are discovered in Lagos Embarks of 4-day house-to-house immunisation Nigeria's polio eradication bid has suffered a major setback following the discovery of…

Rotary budgets $96.5m to end polio

Rotary on Wednesday, August 15, 2018 announced nearly $100 million in grants to support the global effort to end polio, a vaccine-preventable disease that once paralysed hundreds of thousands of children each year. The announcement comes…