News Stories
06/03/2018
In eastern Afghanistan, one family is helping to vaccinate every last child in their community
02/03/2018
US$ 3.2 million pledged for equipment to help detect the last remaining reservoirs of the virus.
28/02/2018
Update on polio eradication efforts in Pakistan for January 2018
20/02/2018
The strong polio eradication infrastructure in Borno is supporting Nigeria to vaccinate over eight million people against yellow fever.
16/02/2018
In Afghanistan, frontline health workers explain to parents why the polio vaccine must be delivered multiple times
15/02/2018
Update on polio eradication efforts in Afghanistan for January 2018
12/02/2018
The polio surveillance system is finding the virus in the most challenging areas so that children can be protected and polio stopped for good.
09/02/2018
Sudan is on guard against polio, despite no case in eight years
29/01/2018
Member states and partners discussed how to keep the world polio free after eradication in Geneva
24/01/2018
Update on polio eradication efforts in Pakistan for December 2017
22/01/2018
Afghanistan’s surveillance system is the strongest it’s ever been, says country experts
22/01/2018
Over the critical ‘low transmission season’, Pakistan’s polio programme is working feverishly to identify and vaccinate every high-risk mobile child
19/01/2018
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) is extremely saddened that two committed frontline health workers were killed while delivering vaccines in Quetta, Pakistan. We extend our deepest condolences to their family. The delivery of health care is im...
15/01/2018
Update on polio eradication efforts in Afghanistan for December 2017
29/12/2017
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is partnering with institutions in seven countries to help document and disseminate knowledge from the polio programme
