Thursday 26 December 2013

In Somaliland, Volunteer Vaccinators help contain the Threat of Wild Polio Virus



In northern Somalia, volunteer Vaccinators are trying to contain the country’s recent outbreak of polio – and so far, they’re succeeding.
HARGEISA, Somalia, 18 December 2013 – In May 2013, the first case of polio seen in Somalia in more than six years was announced in Mogadishu. Plans for mass vaccination campaigns were drawn up. The authorities in Hargeisa, in Somalia’s northern region of Somaliland, took no chances, and they announced a high alert. Somaliland, Puntland and South Central regions launched an emergency vaccination campaign in June.


find here a REPORT on Polio Eradication effort in Northern Somalia as presented By Susannah Price and culled from the uincef website 

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