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CGPP Nigeria Secretariat Accepts Polio Heroes Award

Two years ago on August 25, 2020, Nigeria and Africa were certified as free from the Wild Polio Virus Type 1 that has been responsible for paralysis in thousands of children across the world before the advent of the Global Polio
Eradication Initiative (GPEI) in 1988. Nigeria is the last African country to be declared free from the wild virus. And yet there is still much work to be done to reach polio eradication. Recently that continued work was recognized by the Federal Ministry of Health and the National Primary Health Care Development Authority in Nigeria through its Polio Heroes Award given to CORE Group Partners Project (CGPP) Nigeria.