Global Polio Surveillance Action Plan 2025-2026
The Global Polio Surveillance Action Plan (GPSAP) 2025–2026 defines the surveillance activities required to achieve the goals of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) for the interruption of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) transmission and outbreaks of type 2 circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV2). The GPSAP 2025-2026 continues to align with and support polio surveillance objectives and activities detailed in the GPEI Polio eradication strategy 2022-2026: delivering on a promise, extension to 2029.
There are six mutually supportive objectives of the GPSAP 2025–2026:
- Enhance and sustain AFP surveillance sensitivity and timeliness
- Optimize the ES network to contribute to the timely detection of polioviruses
- Scale up iVDPV surveillance to sustain polio eradication
- Maintain and strengthen the integrity, capacity and capability of the GPLN
- Plan for an integrated future while increasing efficiency in data for action
- Enhance surveillance management and accountability
While this plan focuses on high-priority countries and territories, it also introduces a new framework to guide all countries toward the level of polio surveillance sensitivity needed to detect polioviruses until WPV1 eradication and cVDPV2 elimination are globally certified.
For a copy of the related materials in their original format, requests can be made to your WHO Regional Office or by email at polio_info@who.int
