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   08/03/2024
Women on the frontlines of polio eradication in Afghanistan
The Female Mobiliser Vaccinator (FMV) programme supported by UNICEF and partners continues to play a critical role in efforts to reach every child and end polio in the country.
   25/10/2023
In Eastern Afghanistan, communities engage in polio eradication efforts, but desperately need clean water and sanitation
25 October 2023
   21/03/2023
Polio programme provides vital support to nationwide measles vaccination in Afghanistan
21 March 2023
   06/03/2023
Statement on stopping wild poliovirus transmission in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Seventh meeting of the Regional Subcommittee for Polio Eradication and Outbreaks - 28 February 2023
   31/01/2023
Gearing up to stop polio in Afghanistan and Pakistan
16 January 2023
   03/01/2023
In Afghanistan, communities keep an eye out for polio in one of the virus’s last frontiers
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
Polio surveillance review yields results in Afghanistan
Recommendations from the international review of Afghanistan’s poliovirus surveillance system are yielding important results for the country’s eradication programme.
   20/09/2022
Afghanistan completes largest ever review of polio surveillance system
For the last two decades, the prospect of sending 16 visiting polio experts out across the provinces of Afghanistan would have been impossible but from 6 to 19 June 2022, WHO Afghanistan’s polio eradication programme did just that. Their mission? To re...
   23/08/2022
Diary of a polio surveillance reviewer: eight days in Afghanistan’s west
Dr Abdinoor Mohamed, an epidemiologist tells us about his team's travel to Afghanistan to review the country’s polio surveillance system, visiting 67 districts in 25 of the country’s 34 provinces.
   15/08/2022
Afghanistan makes progress in polio eradication but challenges remain
One year on from Afghanistan’s transition of power in August 2021, WHO’s polio eradication programme has made critical gains – but the job is far from finished
   05/07/2022
Polio teams support response to devastating earthquake in Afghanistan
Teams urgently mobilized to help respond to disaster
   24/02/2022
Statements on attacks on health workers in Afghanistan
Statements by Regional Director EMRO and United Nations in the country
   03/11/2021
Afghanistan polio snapshot – September 2021
Update on polio eradication efforts in Afghanistan for September 2021
   18/10/2021
Nationwide polio vaccination campaign set to recommence across Afghanistan in November
WHO and UNICEF welcome the decision by the Taliban leadership supporting the resumption of nationwide polio vaccination across Afghanistan.
   19/08/2021
GPEI Statement on Afghanistan
19 August 2021
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