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At WHO Executive Board, experts discuss concrete ways to tackle last remaining polio strong-holds
16 January 2023
Integrating polio eradication expertise and infrastructure is critical to keep Syria polio-free, strengthen essential immunization and detec...
This snapshot shows all polio events and outbreaks that occurred/were ongoing in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) in 2022
Polio programme must keep clear focus in 2023 on adapting operations amid broader humanitarian emergencies
This is the target year for interrupting all remaining poliovirus transmission globally, both in the remaining endemic countries and in outb...
Dr Hamid Jafari, Director of Polio for the WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean Region, reflects on his time eradicating polio in India and what less...
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 ti...
Recommendations from the international review of Afghanistan’s poliovirus surveillance system are yielding important results for the country...
Qatar, supported by WHO, ramps up surveillance for polio during the FIFA World Cup 2022
As 2022 draws to a close, independent technical bodies from key epi-centres dive deep on what it will take to achieve success in 2023
ISLAMABAD, DEC 2, 2022
Together, we can end polio!
We are close to making polio the second human disease to be eradicated, but what will it take to finally consign this killer disease to the...