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24/01/2022
Polio team’s support for COVID-19 vaccination demonstrates their value for global health

The support polio teams provide to deliver COVID-19 vaccines underlines the vital role they can play for health priorities beyond polio.

18/01/2022
Polio worker nominated for Presidential honour in Pakistan

Soni Faisal’s work to eradicate polio has been as healing for her as it has been for the children she’s determined to help.

21/12/2021
Pakistan polio snapshot – November 2021

Update on polio eradication efforts in Pakistan for November 2021

20/12/2021
2021 – the year that set the stage for a polio-free world

2021 may go down in history as the turning point in the global effort to eradicate polio.

16/12/2021
Programme progress in Pakistan

High level commitment to ending polio in Pakistan by regional UN leadership

01/12/2021
Pakistan polio snapshot – October 2021

Update on polio eradication efforts in Pakistan for October 2021

09/11/2021
No polio detected in Tajikistan since third round of supplemental immunization

Polio returned to Tajikistan last year when a circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) outbreak was declared in the province o...

03/11/2021
Afghanistan polio snapshot – September 2021

Update on polio eradication efforts in Afghanistan for September 2021

02/11/2021
Cross River State leverages polio campaign structure to integrate Covid-19 vaccination

To encourage the uptake of COVID-19 vaccination, the Nigerian Government, with support from the WHO, leveraged the polio vaccination campaig...

27/10/2021
Bringing an end to polio: A new strategy for the last mile

While tremendous progress has been made in the fight against polio, wild poliovirus remains endemic to two countries and the threat of cVDPV...

25/10/2021
Polio-free in the Americas for 30 Years

The last detected case of polio in the Region of the Americas was in 1991. This year we celebrate 30 years without the disease! But what doe...

19/10/2021
Pakistan polio snapshot – September 2021

Update on polio eradication efforts in Pakistan for September 2021

19/10/2021
The polio retirees spending their golden years on the eradication trail

For a few incredible eradicators, a life’s purpose doesn’t stop at retirement

18/10/2021
Nationwide polio vaccination campaign set to recommence across Afghanistan in November

WHO and UNICEF welcome the decision by the Taliban leadership supporting the resumption of nationwide polio vaccination across Afghanistan.

13/10/2021
Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus in Ukraine

Virus isolated from Rivne province in north-west of country

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