News Stories
24/01/2023
Polio programme must keep clear focus in 2023 on adapting operations amid broader humanitarian emergencies
16/01/2023
This is the target year for interrupting all remaining poliovirus transmission globally, both in the remaining endemic countries and in outbreak settings.
12/01/2023
Dr Hamid Jafari, Director of Polio for the WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean Region, reflects on his time eradicating polio in India and what lessons we can take from this to address the final challenges for achieving eradication in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
03/01/2023
When a mother brought her young son to a clinic in Paghman, a town not far from the Afghan capital Kabul, Spogmai, a nurse on duty at the time, paid special attention.
19/12/2022
Recommendations from the international review of Afghanistan’s poliovirus surveillance system are yielding important results for the country’s eradication programme.
12/12/2022
Qatar, supported by WHO, ramps up surveillance for polio during the FIFA World Cup 2022
08/12/2022
As 2022 draws to a close, independent technical bodies from key epi-centres dive deep on what it will take to achieve success in 2023
05/12/2022
ISLAMABAD, DEC 2, 2022
25/10/2022
We are close to making polio the second human disease to be eradicated, but what will it take to finally consign this killer disease to the history books?
24/10/2022
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) stands tall on the foundation of millions of women’s efforts and voices.
18/10/2022
More than 3000 scientists and health experts from 115 countries urge the world to fully fund eradication strategy following resurgence of disease
13/10/2022
Tuesday 11 October 2022
13/10/2022
a Healthier Future for Mothers and Children, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland
10/10/2022
11 October 2022
