30/05/2012
Senior Somali government officials launch polio campaign
Mogadishu, Somalia , 27 May 2013 – Mothers and children lined up patiently here today for polio vaccination, under a high sun and intense heat. Their vaccinator was the Prime Minister himself,...
24/05/2012
New cases at lowest levels ever, but funding gap threatens progress
Geneva, Switzerland 24 May 2012– Despite the dramatic drop in polio cases in the last year, the threat of continued transmission due to funding and immunization gaps has driven the Gl...
23/05/2012
WHO reports on Polio Eradication in the African Region in 2011
Brazzaville, 23 May 2012 -- The number of wild poliovirus (WPV) cases in the World Health Organization (WHO) African Region dropped from 657 in 2010 to 350 in 2011 representing a 47% d...
10/05/2012
Polio transmission is heating up in northwestern Nigeria just as populations move back along traditional stock routes and into areas now affected by conflict, such as Mali.
In Nigeria, authorities are focusing on making sure vaccination activities are wel...
08/05/2012
Before dawn on the first day of the National Immunization Days in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Vaccinator Antoine Ngusu Hely is fully awake despite the early hour.
At the health center of Kitutu, a storage site in the health zone of Nyemba in...
03/05/2012
The Polio Heroes of Chad –social mobilizers, vaccinators, community and religious leaders
06/04/2012
Everyone’s effort is required to eradicate polio from Nigeria
6 April 2012 - “I really want to improve the health situation of all the children in my communities, by immunizing them against child killer diseases like polio,” says Saudutu, a 37-year-ol...
04/04/2012
Rotary International President Kalyan Banerjee awards medal to Afghan President Hamid Karzai for his commitment to polio eradication
EVANSTON, Illinois, USA, April 4, 2012 – Rotary International President Kalyan Banerjee made history April 2 whe...
03/04/2012
Safe and affordable inactivated polio vaccine for low-income countries.
One of the strategic priorities of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative is to enable low-income countries to produce Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV). To meet this objective, t...