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19 September 2022
Dr Abdinoor Mohamed, an epidemiologist tells us about his team's travel to Afghanistan to review the country’s polio surveillance system, vi...
A story of determination, friendship and support
One year on from Afghanistan’s transition of power in August 2021, WHO’s polio eradication programme has made critical gains – but the job i...
Polio cases have nose-dived by 99% since the late 1980s after a push to eradicate the disease, but clusters of cases across the world indica...
29 July 2022
Statement
WHO Geographic Information System (GIS) equips over 200 specialists across Africa with essential digital mapping and Mobile Health skills to...
With cVDPV1 and cVDPV2 outbreaks unfolding against the backdrop of a major humanitarian crisis, polio surveillance has never been tougher –...
Parameters for global eradication revisited
Teams urgently mobilized to help respond to disaster
New guidance anticipated to quicken progress in achieving necessary safeguards
G7 and Commonwealth Heads of Government call for strengthened support to global polio eradication effort
Group issues recommendations to tackle both WPV1 outbreak in south-east Africa and variants across sub-Saharan Africa
22 June 2022
