A high-powered joint delegation of the Federal Government of Nigeria, the Gates Foundation and Aliko Dangote Foundation paid an advocacy visit to the governor of Gombe State and Chairman of the National Economic Council (NEC) Task Team on Polio Eradication, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, as Nigeria intensifies efforts to interrupt the transmission of circulating variant poliovirus types 2 and 3 within the next two years.
The visit is part of coordinated national and global efforts to consolidate existing gains and fast-track the permanent interruption of all poliovirus variants in Nigeria, building on the historic certification of the African Region as free of wild poliovirus in 2020.
The delegation was jointly led by the Executive Secretary of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Muyi Aina, on behalf of the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Professor Muhammad Ali Pate, and the President of Global Development at the Gates Foundation, Mr. Chris Elias.
