Nasarawa is mobilising early: a polio vaccination drive for November 7, built with UNICEF and WHO

Polio survives in the gaps — the child missed, the record not kept. In Nigeria's Nasarawa State, officials are moving before the November 7–10 vaccination campaign rather than after it: the State Primary Health Care Development Agency convened media and community partners in Lafia to build awareness and accurate records, with UNICEF urging sustained vaccination and hygiene, and WHO coordinators tracking the vaccine-derived virus that still circulates locally. An earlier round reached 93% coverage and targeted more than a million children under five, house to house across all 13 local government areas. The lesson officials keep repeating is simple: eradication is achievable, but only if every child is reached — every time.

SDG 3 · Good health and well-being — Mechanism: institutional program