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<P><EM>Addressing the challenges of resistance to polio immunization in Nigeria</EM></P>

Not my child

Addressing the challenges of resistance to polio immunization in Nigeria

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Polio eradication this week: 

  • India will pass one year without a single child being paralyzed by polio, for the first time in history, on 13 January, if no cases are reported in the coming week and if all pending samples return negative in the coming weeks. Maintaining sensitive surveillance and high childhood immunity will be of prime importance for India to continue protecting its children.
  • The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon continues to closely follow polio eradication issues, and has recently written to the heads of state of Nigeria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Chad and the Democratic Republic of the Congo highlighting the urgent need to complete polio eradication.

 

  


  

I will walk again

Polio survivor inspires support for ending the disease

Ten days before his 21st birthday, David Goldstone lay in a hospital bed near Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, his arms and legs paralyzed by polio, his body gripped by fever and in terrible pain. His hospital admission form read, "Life expectancy: 24 hours."
Six days later, Goldstone emerged from a semi-coma and was moved out of isolation into a children's ward; adult polio victims were and still are relatively rare. "You will probably ne... Full story
  

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