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10/07/2017
Leaders of the Group of Twenty commit to complete polio eradication
28/06/2017
The Korea Foundation for International Healthcare is supporting efforts to improve surveillance in one of the last remaining strongholds of the poliovirus.
28/06/2017
Ambassador Carole Lanteri hands over to Ambassador Mitsuko Shino as co-chair of the Polio Partners Group, as countries and partners come together to discuss progress towards polio eradication
27/06/2017
A short chat with Dr Ousmane Diop, Coordinator of the Global Polio Laboratory Network, on innovative ways to track and find polioviruses through disease surveillance.
27/06/2017
GPEI offers sincere thanks for her ten-year leadership, which brought the world to the threshold of being polio-free.
21/06/2017
Important lessons on stopping the poliovirus in the most challenging locations are moving the polio eradication programme closer to the finishing line.
12/06/2017
Countries and partners pledge US$ 1.2 billion to protect 450 million children from polio every year
09/06/2017
Michel Zaffran, Director of Polio at WHO, talks to us about vaccine-derived polioviruses (VDPV) and how WHO is working to stop the recent outbreak in Syria.
08/06/2017
Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 outbreak has been confirmed in Deir-Ez-Zor Governorate
31/05/2017
How Nigeria’s Volunteer Community Mobilizers are delivering more than just polio vaccines
30/05/2017
After a polio outbreak, how do experts make sure that the virus is gone for good?
29/05/2017
The Emergency Committee of the International Health Regulations removes Lao PDR from list of infected countries
26/05/2017
With eradication closer than ever, delegates to the World Health Assembly discussed how to finish the job and address the challenges of the post-polio world.
24/05/2017
The World Health Assembly has elected Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as the new Director-General of the World Health Organization
