Pros And Cons Of Polio Vaccination In Nigeria

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The question being asked over and over again, “Can polio be eradicated by 2018?” Although this is the goal for the world, is this goal realistic? No one knows the answer for sure or even necessarily the right way to go about doing this. There are many ideas and opinions about if this can happen. I believe that it is going to be very difficult to eradicate polio by 2018. There are a lot of obstacles that need be overcame before this can happen. Obstacles with getting vaccines to everyone, violence in many countries, and people’s willingness to get the vaccination are only a few of the obstacles that are being faced right now. In the world there are currently still three countries that have not stopped polio, Nigeria, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. …show more content…

People in Nigeria do not trust their government and there are many health problems in Nigeria. Many of the people do not think that polio vaccinations are a huge problem in Nigeria. They think that there are other bigger health issues that the government should be focusing on. This makes people suspicious of the vaccine, thus refusing it. There are many other concerns in this area too, including lack of sanitation, water supply, other life threatening diseases, and malnutrition. Many of the people also live on less than a dollar a day (Abimbola, Malik, & Mansoor, 2013). With all of these other issues, it makes sense that the people are leery of the vaccination and do not want it. It will take a lot for the government to get everyone’s trust and that might not ever even …show more content…

Different countries and even different part of countries may require a high dose of the vaccine. This can be affected by the sanitation, water supply, density of population and other variables that cause people to be more susceptible. Depending on where people live depends on how their immunity is. It takes time and patience to discover that in countries and what dose of the vaccine people need. With this also comes the need for more research on the polio vaccination. The oral vaccine has a low efficacy. There is also the problem with vaccine derived polio (Maher, 2013). Even after polio is eradicated there are going to be more issues to deal with. There are not going to be aid workers going out and vaccinating everyone. The people that are in the small, hard to reach towns are not going to get the vaccination. The aid workers are already having a hard time reaching these people and when they make less than a dollar a day, how are they supposed to get the vaccine (Maher, 2013)? What if wild polio virus reintroduces itself? What about vaccine derived polio virus? What is going to happen when these are introduced and how are we going to prevent them from

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