The most topical issue right now is COVID-19 vaccinations. There are all sorts of debates going on including sadly vaccine diplomacy. However, what should be most paramount now is how to get the vaccine to the people who need it most and bring an end to the pandemic. Like in...
When Africa was declared free of poliovirus on August 25, 2020, it was only the second such feat after the continent managed to shake off smallpox four decades ago. A lot of kudos for this went to Tunji Funsho, a Lagos-based cardiologist who chairs Rotary’s Nigeria National PolioPlus Committee, for...
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage our communities and creating obstacles in the way we were doing things. At the beginning, it was a rude shock because it was new. None of us has lived in a pandemic before so we had to "learn on the job"as it were. And...
The viral polio disease has over the years crippled hundreds of thousands of children in Africa and other parts of the world but on August 25, four years after Africa’s last case was recorded in northern Nigeria, the continent was declared free of wild polio. Still, vaccine-derived strains of the...
Nigeria is now wild polio virus free. Hurray! We have been celebrating that for at least 2 months now and while it is a commendable achievement worthy of celebration, I am beginning to feel like the time is right for us to have a reset. This year's World Polio Day...
CHAIRMAN'S ADDRESS In my virtual travels around the world since the certification of Africa as a polio-free region, a recurring question that gets asked is " now that we are certified free...
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