Insecurity frightening the Success Mass Polio Vaccination Campaign

Instability and insecurity in a few West and Central African regions are intimidating the results of the 20-country polio vaccination crusade, which generally aims to vaccinate 111.1 million little ones contrary to the disease, IRIN reports. Continuing rebel assaults endanger the crusade in Nigeria, the region's only polio-endemic nation and residential to 57.7 million of the children specified the information service notes.

Aspects of Mali, Niger, and Chad also pose security troubles for health care employees trying to get access to children in remote or undecided places, in accordance with IRIN. "Human error and weak health platforms also play a necessary role in sub-optimal immunization attain," the information service writes, observing so far, "only Ghana, Cape Verde, Burkina Faso, Gambia, and Togo have accomplished the necessary 90% protection, in accordance with UNICEF" (3/23).