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Angola reports positive polio case, announces vaccination campaign
Angola has registered a case of polio "imported from neighboring countries" and starts a national vaccination campaign for children under five on Friday, for the total protection of children, it was announced today.
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The Angolan Ministry of Health stated in a press release that the campaign, whose first phase is scheduled for May 17, 18 and 19, will be carried out to prevent and respond to the occurrence of a case of polio imported from neighboring countries.
The eradication of polio "is a global and national commitment to protect the health" of children "and keep Angola free of polio," the statement reads.
According to the ministry, the second phase of the campaign will take place between June 28 and 30, and both phases will be carried out door-to-door, in churches, markets and hospitals.
The campaign covers all children under five years of age, including those who have already been vaccinated in the 2023 routine campaign.
The authorities call for everyone's participation in promoting the polio vaccination campaign, because "vaccination can ensure an Angola free from the threat of polio," adds the Ministry of Health.
The World Health Organization (WHO) promoted, with the Angolan authorities, in October 2023, a polio vaccination campaign in all provinces of Angola due to the low immunity rate, of 60%, of Angolan children.
In a statement sent to Lusa at the time, the WHO stated that Angola had successively eradicated the circulation of poliovirus in 2015, "but the analysis of vaccination coverage data for bivalent oral polio and inactivated polio for the period from 2022 to the first quarter of 2023 shows that children's immunity to poliovirus types 1, 2 and 3 is currently low, estimated at less than 60%".
Polio is a serious disease that can cause irreversible paralysis, and is contracted, particularly in developing countries, through water contaminated by human feces and mainly affects children under five years of age.
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