October 2023: DRC’s Kwango province ran a vaccination effort against polio

DRC’s Kwango province ran a vaccination effort against polio October 12-14. Amid an ongoing nurses’ strike, community members (known as “relays”) stepped in to administer polio vaccines house to house to nearly 560,000 children under age 5. Concurrently, Butembo’s provincial health division in North Kivu province ran a door-to-door polio campaign that targeted over 924,000 children under age 5; this effort came as a response to a case reported in the region, per Time News. Fatshimetrie (1); BNN; Fatshimetrie (2); Time News