Videos
12/06/2025
In 2023 and 2024, Guinea faced two separate polio outbreaks. This short film focuses on the response in Siguiri, a remote gold mining region that draws people from across West Africa. Overcrowded and vulnerable to health threats, the area became a priority...
09/11/2023
First visit by the POB and representatives from all GPEI partners to Pakistan in 2023.
24/04/2023
Last year, the Polio Oversight Board visited Pakistan twice, acknowledging the unprecedented support and commitment by all stakeholders to ending polio in the country.
27/10/2022
Together, we can end polio!
19/05/2022
Ananda talks about development of the nOPV2 vaccine its pathway to rollout, and field performance
27/10/2021
While tremendous progress has been made in the fight against polio, wild poliovirus remains endemic to two countries and the threat of cVDPV outbreaks continues to loom.
27/08/2021
Despite success against wild polio in the African region, outbreaks of the non-wild form of polio, cVDPV2, continue. With continued country commitment to eradication, a future where no child in Africa is paralysed by the virus is possible.
27/08/2021
Learn how the type 2 novel oral polio vaccine (nOPV2) is being rolled out across Africa to help more sustainably address outbreaks of a non-wild form of polio, cVDPV2, and protect children across the continent.
27/08/2021
Three polio survivors from Mozambique, Congo and Ethiopia share their experiences of living with the effects of disease, and their hope for a polio-free world.
29/10/2020
We talk to Dr Wadood about the impact of COVID-19 on the global polio eradication effort, and how the polio infrastructure is supporting COVID response.
09/03/2020
Dr. Hamid Jafari, Director of Polio Eradication for the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region, speaks to us about the actions the programme is taking to turn the tide against the poliovirus in Afghanistan and elsewhere in the region.
09/01/2020
Ensuring nomadic children receive their polio vaccines is a formidable task.