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My husband doesn’t like the polio (vaccination), but since I made him start listening to the program, he now allows the children to receive the immunisation.
Nigeria is one of only three countries that remain polio-endemic, and the only one in Africa. Although global cases have decreased by 99%, the last 1% of cases poses a grave threat. Polio is highly infectious and spreads rapidly among non-immunised populations and can lead to permanent paralysis or death.
In Northern Nigeria, polio vaccination efforts have traditionally been met with parental and community resistance, meaning some parents refuse to have their children vaccinated, or fail to bring them for vaccination if their children are not reached at home during vaccination campaigns.
By engaging with communities through local media and creative TV and radio content, our team has helped the global effort to eradicate the wild polio virus and increase routine immunisation across Northern Nigeria. Read our report or find out more about the project here.