This coming weekend will see members of 3 Rotary clubs in Pretoria, in partnership with the South African Vaccination and Immunization Centre (SAVIC) embarking on an awareness campaign about polio as well as a vaccination drive to vaccinate children aged 0-12 years against polio. The campaign and vaccination drive are in the wake of recent reports about the wild Poliovirus outbreak in Mozambique and is also in observance of World Polio Day, which is marked globally, on the 24th of October.
Polio is a viral vaccine-preventable disease (VPD) which is highly infectious, and potentially fatal with no cure and affects mainly young children. Dr Stella Anyangwe is an Epidemiologist, Global Health Expert and Coordinator at the "End-Polio-Now" campaign…
She joins us for this conversation
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