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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
22/01/2018
Women are critical in the drive to eradicate polio in Afghanistan. In one of the final strongholds of the polio virus, vaccination coverage is improving as female vaccinators have more access to children.
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
To eradicate polio, we need to stop all strains of the virus, including vaccine-derived polioviruses. This short animation explains how these rare virus strains emerge and how to stop them.
15/01/2018
Update on polio eradication efforts in Afghanistan for December 2017
09/01/2018
We join Dr Urs Herzog, Rotarian, polio eradicator, National PolioPlus Advocacy Advisor for Rotary Switzerland and polio survivor himself, as he explains the financial costs of the programme and why it is critical that we eradicate every trace of the virus.
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
21/12/2017
Carolyn Sein, Technical Officer for the GPEI programme, talks to us about circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses, and the important differences between oral polio vaccine, and inactivated polio vaccine.
21/12/2017
Professor David Salisbury, chair of the Global Commission for the Certification of the Eradication of Poliomyelitis, talks us through the process of certifying the world as polio-free, and the importance of containing the virus after eradication.
21/12/2017
Update on polio eradication efforts in Afghanistan for November 2017
20/12/2017
Update on polio eradication efforts in Pakistan for November 2017
18/12/2017
€ 2 million in support pledged to help defeat last remaining reservoirs of the virus
18/12/2017
Member states commended for support of polio eradication efforts at the recent Islamic Conference of Health Ministers in Jeddah
18/12/2017
Global progress and renewed commitment brought us closer than ever to a world without polio.
12/12/2017
Recommendations for further interventions in Pakistan and Afghanistan as progress towards polio eradication is put under the microscope.
