News Stories
11/10/2023
BRUSSELS, 11 October 2023
21/09/2023
A success story for public health despite extreme challenges of war
13/09/2023
13 September 2023
04/09/2023
Newly-appointed Pakistan leaders committed to delivering polio-free country
07/08/2023
Since the Republic of Congo first confirmed a case of cVDPV1 in March 2023 (the first such detection in more than two decades), the country has been pioneering the deployment of Geospatial Tracking Systems (GTS) to help curb further transmission.
25/07/2023
At the earliest signs of the ongoing conflict in Sudan, in the middle of April, WHO’s country team sprang into action. After all, conflict and infectious diseases are known to be comrades.
21/07/2023
Says commitment to polio eradication remains commendable, interruption of wild poliovirus is possible in six months with support from communities, government, administrative and security leadership
11/07/2023
Kinshasa, 7 July 2023
22/06/2023
The ‘father’ of polio laboratories in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
22/06/2023
Twenty years ago, Thongbotho Mphoyakgosi, wanted to be a social worker. “But fate had me here,” she laughs, as she gestures to her surroundings at the National Health Laboratory, in Botswana’s capital city, Gaborone.
21/06/2023
60-year-old Raquelina Mazuze is proud of her contribution to the fight against polio as a social mobilizer in her native Mozambique.
26/05/2023
Brazzaville, 26 May 2023
25/05/2023
Global leaders commit to ending polio once and for all
