Kano, UNICEF Target 7.8m Children In Record Measles-Rubella, Polio Vaccination Campaign

Kano State government, successful collaboration with the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), has targeted to vaccinate implicit 7.8 cardinal children successful the Integrated Measles-Rubella and Polio Vaccination Campaign successful the October 2025 exercise.

The campaign, which volition statesman connected October 6 to 17, targets children aged 9 months to 14 years for the measles-rubella vaccine; nether 5 for polio vaccines; infants betwixt 0–23 months for regular immunisation, portion besides delivering immunis1ation for hepatitis (HPV), and attraction for onchocerciasis.

Speaking connected Monday astatine a media dialog and predisposition league successful Kano, Director General of the State Primary Healthcare Management Board, Prof. Salisu Ibrahim, represented by Dr. Ahmed Tijana, Director of Disease Control and Immunisation, described the run arsenic historic, saying that it is the largest run successful the full of sub-Saharan Africa.

According to him, “In Nigeria, we are targeting 106 cardinal children, and successful Kano alone, implicit 7 cardinal children volition beryllium vaccinated. This integration saves costs, reduces the load of aggregate campaigns, and delivers wellness services successful a azygous package.”

He, therefore, urged journalists to sensitise the nationalist to guarantee maximum coverage, noting that preparations for the 10-day run has been concluded with the deployment of 3,347 vaccination teams, proviso of 4.6 cardinal doses of caller oral polio vaccine, and 4.5 cardinal doses of bivalent oral polio vaccine which is supported by UNICEF and partners.

In his remarks, Rahama Farah, Chief of UNICEF Field Office successful Kano, noted that Kano State was successful Phase One of the nationalist run covering 21 States.

He stressed the value of halting polio transmission, pointing retired that Kano State recorded 3 cases of variant polio microorganism (cVPV2) successful 2025 compared to 31 successful 2024.

He added that UNICEF, alongside the Federal Ministry of Health, WHO, GAVI, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and civilian nine partners, has supported Kano State with grooming of implicit 3,000 wellness workers, assemblage mobilisers, and the proviso of accusation materials to thrust acceptance.

“The media indispensable assistance mobilise caregivers and communities. Vaccines are safe, effective, and free,” Farah said, urging parents to marque their children disposable for vaccination exercise.