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more than a decade, polio vaccination campaigns in Nigeria have suffered from targeted misinformation strategies and attacks by the terrorist group Boko Haram, weak social mobilization campaigns, and lack of commitment by some local leaders. Some strategies have also backfired. For example, the tactic of
atitis vaccination campaign in its hunt for Osama bin Laden. The warlord, Hafiz Gul Bahadur, has banned all
will continue. Levels of non-compliance might also be inflated for this reason. 5. Security - In Borno state and Yobe state, where the war against Boko Haram has rendered entires swaths of territory off limits, the challenge of eradicating polio is has an added security dimension. Health workers have to
pork being in the vaccine, that polio campaigns are a plot to sterilize Africans, and the use of polio workers by the CIA to collect information on Bin Laden in Pakistan are all widely cited as reasons why people refuse to let their children receive vaccinations. - But most data suggests that with every
assessed along three criteria: cost, time and risk. In particular, the issue of risk is pertinent for those interventions seeking to have impact in Boko Haram controlled regions. 4 EFTA00586333 Confidential — Not for distribution or circulation Barriers to Polio Eradication in Nigeria Introduction At
as was the case in Pakistan in the hunt for Osama Bin Laden) were not mentioned. 97 Interviews in northern
Entities connected to both Boko Haram and Bin Laden

Osama bin Laden
PERSON
Barack Obama
PERSON
United States
LOCATION
Jeffrey Epstein
PERSON
George W. Bush
PERSON
Bill Clinton
PERSON
Julie K. Brown
PERSON
Department of Justice
ORGANIZATION
Donald Trump
PERSON
Joe Biden
PERSON
Prince Andrew
PERSON
Marc Rich
PERSON
Virginia Giuffre
PERSON
Benjamin Netanyahu
PERSON
Bashar al-Assad
PERSON
Tehran
LOCATION
Stephen Hawking
PERSON
Michael Jackson
PERSON
Ghislaine Maxwell
PERSON
Yemen
LOCATION