Tz to Provide Additional Polio Vaccinations
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- 11 Mar 2022
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has put Tanzania Mozambique, and Zambia on high alert after Malawi registered the polio case.
The WHO said additional vaccinations for children under the age of five in Malawi and neighboring countries would be administered shortly.
According to WHO, Malawi has scheduled a mass supplemental polio vaccination response targeting children under the age of five, using the Bivalent Oral Polio Vaccine (BOPV) recommended by the WHO and the GPEI (Global Polio Eradication Initiative) partners for type 1, wild poliovirus.
"Four rounds of polio vaccination campaigns are planned. All the neighbouring countries - Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zambia - have been alerted and are planning to conduct immunization campaigns as well," the WHO said in a statement.
In 2015, the African Region Certification Commission for polio eradication certified Tanzania as polio free as the country recorded the last case of the disease in 1996.
Working with the government and through the assistance of partners like UNICEF, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), Tanzania was able to up the fight against polio and reached every child with immunization services. Read More...
