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...summer of 2003, leaders of the region stopped polio inoculations after rumors spread that the vaccine could transmit AIDS and render girls infertile. It was a bad time--and a very bad place--to halt vaccines. There are now 35 million Nigerian kids under age 5, and 20% have no polio vaccinations. Says Oliver Rosenbauer, spokesman for WHO's Global Polio Eradication Initiative: "That's a lot of breathing space for the poliovirus to survive...
Professor John Idoko, chair of infectious diseases at Jos University Teaching Hospital in Jos, Nigeria and head of one of SPH’s Nigerian clinics, said that at least 1000 AIDS-infected patients were on a waiting list for anti-retroviral drugs that were supposed to be purchased by Harvard in March 2004. The funding for those drugs was not released by the University until the end of last July and some of those patients died while waiting for them...
Idoko and Nigerian program director Robert Murphy, adjunct professor of infectious disease at SPH, said lives might have been saved had the University released the funding in March as originally planned...
...employees at his clinic began receiving their stipends at the end of July, Idako said, but employees at other Nigerian sites did not begin receiving their pay until last September...
Soyinka, who is a prolific playwright, poet, and novelist, has also been a prominent political activist since he was imprisoned in 1967 after appealing in an article for a ceasefire in the Nigerian civil...