Cases of polio in Nigeria are dropping

Opponents stymie fight against polio in Nigeria.

Integration, community engagement, and polio eradication in Nigeria - authors' reply.

www.thelancet.com/lancetgh Vol 2 June 2014 e316 but also the local media and relatives. Obtaining health infor mation via religious leaders strongly aff ected the probability that a child had received OPV, but health workers and town announcers also had a substantial effect on the probability of a child being vaccinated against poliovirus. Because targeted social mobilisation is an eff ective w...

A Class Structured Mathematical Model For Polio Virus In Nigeria

In this paper, a bilinear mathematical model of ordinary differential equations is introduced to investigate the transmission dynamics of polio virus in Nigeria. The effect of vaccines versus environmental clean-up efforts on disease transmission is discussed. In the modeling process, Monte Carlo simulations were employed to approximate the values of three unknown parameters. Transmission is as...

The Journalists Initiatives on Immunisation Against Polio and Improved Acceptance of the Polio Vaccine in Northern Nigeria 2007-2015.

BACKGROUND The polio eradication initiative had major setbacks in 2003 and 2007 due to media campaigns in which renowned scholars and Islamic clerics criticized polio vaccines. The World Health Organization (WHO) partnered with journalists in 2007 to form the Journalists Initiatives on Immunisation Against Polio (JAP), to develop communication initiatives aimed at highlighting polio eradication...

Serum IgG and IgA levels in polio and non-polio acute flaccid paralysis cases in western Uttar Pradesh, India.

OBJECTIVE IgG and IgA immunocompetence of children with wild poliovirus poliomyelitis and non-polio acute flaccid paralysis. METHODS 932 cases of acute flaccid paralysis, reported in 2008-2009, were tested for presence of polio and non-polio enteroviruses according to the WHO standards. Serum IgA and IgG levels were determined by sandwich ELISA. RESULTS Mean (SD) IgA levels [0.87 (0.62)g/L;...