{"id":163674,"date":"2025-05-22T23:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T22:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/vaccine-rejection-in-communities-worries-adamawa-govt"},"modified":"2025-05-23T00:10:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T23:10:33","slug":"vaccine-rejection-in-communities-worries-adamawa-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/vaccine-rejection-in-communities-worries-adamawa-govt","title":{"rendered":"Vaccine rejection in communities worries Adamawa govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Vaccine rejection in some communities in Adamawa State is making the state government uneasy.<\/p>\n<p>The state Deputy Governor, Professor Kaletapwa Farauta, expressed the government\u2019s concern on Thursday over increasing cases of routine vaccination rejection, a situation she attributed to misinformation, myths, and mistrust.<\/p>\n<p>The deputy governor said at an event in Yola that the repeated outbreaks of measles are largely due to poor vaccination coverage caused by rejection from many targeted residents, despite repeated immunization efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the 2025 1st Bi-Annual meeting with traditional rulers on primary health care matters at the Banquet Hall, Government House, Farauta said non-compliance with calls for routine vaccination against any vaccine-preventable disease is a concern for all well-meaning people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernment is committed beyond reviewing our immunization campaign and the rising disease burden,\u201d she said, urging all emirates and chiefdoms to establish functional structures that meet regularly to fashion out ways of correcting vaccine hesitancy among the people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI must also use this platform to challenge our local government council chairmen: leadership in Primary Health Care begins with you. Neglect, delay, or politicization of PHC services at the local level is not acceptable,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Vaccine rejection in some communities in Adamawa State is making the state government uneasy. The state Deputy Governor, Professor Kaletapwa Farauta, expressed the government\u2019s concern on Thursday over increasing cases of routine vaccination rejection, a situation she attributed to misinformation, myths, and mistrust. The deputy governor said at an event in Yola [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":163673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1092,254],"class_list":["post-163674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-adamawa","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Vaccine rejection in communities worries Adamawa govt - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Vaccine rejection in some communities in Adamawa State is making the state government uneasy. 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