Nigeria: religious leaders involved in health policies
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Vaccination of aspirants to the Mecca pilgrimage on May 31, 2021, in Kano, northern Nigeria.
© Liza Fabbian / RFI
By: Liza Fabbian
3 min
In northern Nigeria, in the big city of Kano, traditional and religious authorities play a big role in health policies.
The relays put in place to fight polio in recent years have been reactivated to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic, still including religious and traditional authorities.
Nigeria
Religion
Health and medicine