Najeriya ta zama kasa ta farko a duniya da ta kaddamar da wani sabon rigakafin cutar sankarau

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By Umar Muhammad
Mamadou Kassé, 29, a vaccinator at the Sofara community health center, prepares his syringe to vaccinate a child in the remote village of Kombaka. Mopti, March 2019 Mamadou Kassé, 29, is community health worker in Mali's increasingly volatile central region of Mopti, where fear, insecurity and a partial ban on traveling by motorcycle between towns have all significantly limited women’s access to health centers. Mopti is among the regions of Mali with the lowest levels of vaccination of children - only 37% of children here are fully vaccinated. But the spike in insecurity in the past year has hampered vaccination of children even more severely: in 2017, UNICEF and partners recorded 16,500 children who did not receive their dose of the Penta3 vaccine, whereas in 2018, this number more than quadrupled - to over 70,000 children not vaccinated with Penta3. Even before the spread of insecurity, accessing healthcare was already a challenge for many mothers in Mopti: one in four households is more than 15km away from the nearest health center, and there is only one qualified doctor per every 18,000 people in Mopti - far below WHO's recommended standards. Faced with these challenges, UNICEF and partners are bringing healthcare as close to children’s homes as possible - leveraging both innovations and traditional means to bringing critical healthcare services to the children most in need. Since 2018, UNICEF has been using donkey and horse carts to bring vaccines directly to isolated children in the famous but increasingly insecure area of Djenne. Vaccinators like Mamadou travel by donkey cart for up to 8 hours to reach the families the most in need.
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Najeriya ta zama kasa ta farko a duniya da ta kaddamar da wani sabon rigakafin cutar sankarau da hukumar lafiya ta duniya ta ba da shawara.

A cewar WHO, wannan yana da mahimmanci musamman ga ƙasashe kamar Najeriya.

Alurar riga kafin da sauran ayukkan rigakafi suna samun tallafi ne daga, Gavi wanda ke ba da gudummawar tarin allurar rigakafin sankarau na duniya tare da tallafawa ƙasashe masu karamin karfi da rigakafin cutar sankarau na yau da kullun.

WHO ta bayyana cewa sabon rigakafin yana ba da garkuwa mai ƙarfi daga manyan nau’ikan ƙwayoyin cuta guda biyar. Wannan, kamar yadda yana ba da kariya mafi girma fiye da maganin rigakafin da ake amfani da shi a yawancin Afirka, wanda ke da tasiri kawai akan wani nau’in cutar.

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