Aliko Dangote Foundation boosts Nigeria’s effort to end polio scourge vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
The organisation, in support of government’s efforts to end polio, has released a detailed report which showed the impact of a partnership agreement on routine immunisation, RI and polio eradication, which was signed between the ADF, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, BMGF and six Northern states comprising Kano, Bauchi, Kaduna, Sokoto, Borno and Yobe.
It also highlighted the back-up efforts of the ADF and BMGF through improved logistics; which have ensured better access to healthcare in both rural and urban communities in the six Northern partner states; some of whom have devoted higher parts of their annual budgets to ensure adequate healthcare for millions of their citizens.
ADF, which was endowed with $1.25 billion by its Chairman, Aliko Dangote, has actively supported the polio eradication activities in the partner states, through provision of funding and logistics under a Memorandum of Understanding between the six Northern states and the two foundations. The MoU, which initially began with Kano State in 2012, was renewed and extended last year.
On ADF’s next move to help ensure total eradication of polio so that Nigeria can attain polio-free status in the nearest future, the MD noted: “We will continue to work on the polio campaigns and ensure that many kids are immunised so as to maintain ‘herd immunity’”.
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