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Japan,Nigeria : Japan donates $27m to Nigeria to prevent polio spread
Publish Date : 22-Mar-2017
Japan has granted $27 million to support polio vaccination efforts in Nigeria and additional $6 million to cater to vaccination efforts in the Lake Chad region.
UNICEF said, the donation was in response to the urgent need to increase immunity to polio in the region.
It added, the funds will be utilised to purchase polio vaccines, conduct house-to-house polio vaccination campaigns and support efforts to mobilize communities for vaccination in Nigeria, Chad, Niger, Cameroon and the Central African Republic.
Nigeria in 2016 returned to the list featuring just three polio endemic countries after four cases of the polio virus were detected.
According to UNICEF, existing measures used to curb the wild poliovirus include the collaboration of national governmentswith the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), comprising the World Health Organization, UNICEF, Rotary International, CDC and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), have implemented emergency vaccination campaigns throughout the region to rapidly raise childhood immunity to the polio virus and guard against further spread.
Thanking the Japanese people for the generous grant, UNICEF Representative Mohamed Fall said, This funding fills an urgent need in supporting the ongoing polio vaccination campaigns.
It will bring Nigeria back to being within reach of eradicating polio and will protect its neighbours against the spread of the virus.
UNICEF said, This funding and the leadership provided by both the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) process and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)s innovative soft loan in partnership with BMGF in Nigeria and Pakistan for polio eradication has proven instrumental in the historic reduction of wild poliovirus transmission globally.
