Stories: Polio
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Vaccination in Nigeria: Victory Path with Pending Challenges…
Ada’s vaccination scare The baby wailed and stretched his leg in pain as the nurse administered the vaccine. The health peronnel around consoled both mother and child, encouraging them that the reaction happens in rare cases. The baby they assured would overcome the pain in no time. Seconds, minutes and hours later Ada’s one month baby...
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Could India’s Polio Eradication Success Story Be a Model for Its Other Health Issues?
Setarah Khatoon was 15 when she left school to marry a boy from India's northeast state of Bihar. She was barely 16 when she had her first miscarriage, and by 20, she'd had two more. So when the mother of one surviving baby girl saw Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan television ads telling parents that just “two drops of medicine...
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Polio Comeback: A Sad Lesson From Nigeria
Saidiku Ali is as buff and sculptured as any athlete. His neck is large and corded with tendons. His shoulders gleam in the harsh morning light as the 25-year-old's muscled arms flex and churn like an oiled machine. But the picture is incomplete. Those beautiful arms end in dirty calloused hands, which are stuffed into cheap plastic sandals. Ali'...