Why doesn't Nigeria allow the polio vaccine?

KANO, 4 April 2013 (IRIN) - For years, polio vaccination has faced strong resistance among conservative Islamic communities in northern Nigerian communities, largely ... To them, it doesn't make any sense that you offer to save my children from a crippling disease yet are killing my brothers," said Nasir. read more

The diagnosis of a young boy and girl paralysed with polio has sparked an emergency mass vaccination campaign in Nigeria. Having celebrated its first full year free of the disease in 2015, the country looked set to be polio free by 2017, along with the rest of Africa. read more