By Elisha P. Renne
First runner-up, 2011 Nigerian stories organization e-book Prize
In 2008, Northern Nigeria had the best variety of proven situations of polio on this planet and was once the resource of outbreaks in numerous West African international locations. Elisha P. Renne explores the politics and social dynamics of the Northern Nigerian reaction to the worldwide Polio Eradication Initiative, which has been met with severe skepticism, subversion, and the refusal of a few mom and dad to immunize their kids. Renne explains this resistance through situating the eradication attempt in the social, political, cultural, and historic context of the adventure of polio in Northern Nigeria. Questions of vaccine security, the facility of the govt to supply easy wellbeing and fitness care, and the function of the overseas neighborhood are factored into this delicate and intricate therapy of the ethics of world polio eradication efforts.
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At that time my father came, he wanted to beat my mother. There was one imam from our mosque who came to our house that time, he was the one who said that my father should not beat my mother. ” She went out and disappeared. Nobody knew where she went. (Interview, Zaria, 10 August 2005) This case, in which a woman whose authority rested on her association with bori spirits also prepared medicines for her patient, underscores both the spiritual and physiological dimensions by which the boy’s condition was understood.
The Expanded Programme on Immunisation in Nigeria The Expanded Programme on Immunisation began in Nigeria in 1979, shortly after the eradication of smallpox was certified. The World Health Organization had instituted this program in 1974, with the goal of providing vaccines for diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, measles, polio, and tuberculosis to more than 80 percent of children worldwide (Ekanem 1988). Health officials sought to reach a level of coverage high enough to provide “herd immunity” (Henderson 1999, S55), so that even children who were not immunized would be protected from these childhood diseases.
They would put pox lymph on the arm and then cut or make small cuts with a sterile needle. The Fulani were especially the ones who were doing the old type of inoculation. The Fulani and some malamai were the ones resisting. But there were only a few who were resisting. (Interview, Kaduna, 27 July 2006) As well as receiving vaccinations at local clinics and government hospitals, primary school children were vaccinated for smallpox at school during this period. They were also taught about diseases such as smallpox in health education classes.
