Dr. Folake Kio-Olayinka is a Senior Technical Immunization Officer at the John Snow Inc. Immunization Center. She has extensive experience with polio from her time as a Senior Immunization Advisor at COMPASS/USAID-Nigeria from 2001 to 2007. She finds it essential to examine the concept of partnership and to expand on it for successful eradication of …
Years ago as a young doctor in Nigeria, I was drawn to a baby’s weak cry while I did my ward rounds that evening. After delivery at home, the mother had been rushed with her baby to the hospital. The baby was not nursing and the cord was quite foul smelling with some sort of …
We may have been caught off guard by the recent outbreak of yellow fever in Angola, but we shouldn’t have been too surprised. Following declining levels of yellow fever immunization in 2013, subsequent efforts resulted in only 77 percent of Angolan children being immunized in 2014, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Angola’s most recent outbreak, …
BOSTON – In February in Addis Ababa, African health ministers signed a widely celebrateddeclaration of their commitment to keeping immunization at the forefront of efforts to save the continent’s children from death and disease. Fulfilling that commitment will be no easy feat. Immunization is not just a health issue; it is also an economic challenge. The …