News Stories
14/07/2021
Update on polio eradication efforts in Afghanistan for May 2021
24/06/2021
Pakistan is one of two countries where wild poliovirus remains endemic making it essential that the entire country supports the successful implementation of every polio campaign. Women play a critical role, often working at polio’s frontline.
23/06/2021
Update on polio eradication efforts in Pakistan for April 2021
23/06/2021
Update on polio eradication efforts in Afghanistan for April 2021
15/06/2021
Value of polio infrastructure in COVID-19 support continues to be highlighted
10/06/2021
Support critical ahead of launch of new strategic plan
10/06/2021
Renewed donor support critical to ending polio after recent rise in cases and COVID-19 setbacks
01/06/2021
New strategy sets out roadmap for polio-free world amid COVID-19
31/05/2021
In the middle of a devastating pandemic with no end in sight, a glimmer of hope came in August 2020, on the day the African Region was officially declared free of wild poliovirus.
25/05/2021
Update on polio eradication efforts in Pakistan for March 2021
25/05/2021
Update on polio eradication efforts in Afghanistan for March 2021
28/04/2021
On Ellyn Ogden’s desk sits a decades old coffee mug. It has a special significance for the woman who has led polio eradication for the US Agency for International Development (USAID) since 1997. On the mug, are ten women, the Ladies in Polio, who at th...
23/04/2021
The Principality of Monaco has long been a dedicated supporter of the effort to eradicate polio, and is the highest per capita contributor to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.
14/04/2021
Somalia’s outbreak of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 3 (cVDPV3) has been successfully stopped, with no international spread
