News Stories
30/01/2017
Afghanistan is reaching over 5.6 million children with vaccines against polio during large-scale campaign starting in January.
27/01/2017
Ministries of health from around the world call for urgent measures to secure lasting polio-free world
25/01/2017
The Government of Korea gives US $4 million for polio disease surveillance and outbreak response
20/01/2017
Tahera and over 65,000 dedicated frontline workers are at the heart of efforts to eradicate polio from Afghanistan.
20/01/2017
A global polio communication package to help equip countries with the strategies and tools to finish polio
18/01/2017
In January, the polio programme is contributing to the protection of more than 4 million children against measles.
13/01/2017
Today we are proud to be celebrating the sixth anniversary of the last case of polio in India.
10/01/2017
Automated machines at the CDC are increasing the number of samples tested for polio and for immunity against it.
16/12/2016
Afghanistan and Pakistan are proving that countries are stronger together in the fight to stop the poliovirus.
09/12/2016
Pakistan is building a sensitive system to find every last virus by training surveillance officers, scaling up the workforce and increasing environmental surveillance
08/12/2016
A National Islamic Advisory Group has been established in Somalia to support polio eradication and routine immunization.
07/12/2016
Clinical trials are constantly finding ways to improve the tools and methods used to protect children against polio, even in the most difficult places.
25/11/2016
WHO, UNICEF and partners have reached 1.1 million children with the oral polio vaccine in South Sudan this November
24/11/2016
Regional emergency outbreak response is being further intensified, amid humanitarian crisis and insecurity.