Polio

We don’t often get a lot of good news being reported on Africa. But here is some. In 1988, polio, a disease that causes paralysis mainly among children under 5 years of age, was endemic in 125 countries. In the 1990s, around 75,000 children were paralysed by polio every year. Last year, Nigeria was the last country in Africa to be declared polio free. This is the result of the Kick Polio Out of Africa campaign that was launched in 1996 by Rotary International, together with UNICEF, WHO and others. In 2020, only Afghanistan and Pakistan still have polio.

— Wayne Visser

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