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12/02/2018
Reaching the Hard-to-Reach: Finding polio wherever it is hiding

The polio surveillance system is finding the virus in the most challenging areas so that children can be protected and polio stopped for goo...

09/02/2018
Sudan’s surveillance system for polio under the microscope

Sudan is on guard against polio, despite no case in eight years

02/02/2018
Coffee with Polio Experts: Hans Everts, polio eradicator

Hans Everts, long time polio eradicator, shares personal stories from the frontline of outbreak response, and explains how the lessons learn...

02/02/2018
Coffee with Polio Experts: Mohammed Mohammedi, WHO

Mohammed Mohammedi, country support officer for the Eastern Mediterranean region, speaks to us about the main challenges facing countries an...

29/01/2018
Polio Transition on the global stage at WHO Executive Board Meeting

Member states and partners discussed how to keep the world polio free after eradication in Geneva

24/01/2018
Pakistan Polio Update – December 2017

Update on polio eradication efforts in Pakistan for December 2017

22/01/2018
Afghanistan female vaccinators

Women are critical in the drive to eradicate polio in Afghanistan. In one of the final strongholds of the polio virus, vaccination coverage...

22/01/2018
Protecting children on the move: Pakistan’s final frontier?

Over the critical ‘low transmission season’, Pakistan’s polio programme is working feverishly to identify and vaccinate every high-risk mobi...

22/01/2018
Afghanistan expands environmental surveillance

Afghanistan’s surveillance system is the strongest it’s ever been, says country experts

19/01/2018
Statement on attack on health workers in Pakistan

15/01/2018
Afghanistan polio snapshot – December 2017

Update on polio eradication efforts in Afghanistan for December 2017

15/01/2018
Vaccine-derived Polioviruses

To eradicate polio, we need to stop all strains of the virus, including vaccine-derived polioviruses. This short animation explains how thes...

09/01/2018
Coffee with Polio Experts: Dr Urs Herzog, Rotarian and polio survivor

We join Dr Urs Herzog, Rotarian, polio eradicator, National PolioPlus Advocacy Advisor for Rotary Switzerland and polio survivor himself, as...

29/12/2017
Capturing lessons from polio eradication

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is partnering with institutions in seven countries to help document and disseminate knowledg...

21/12/2017
Coffee with Polio Experts: Professor David Salisbury

Professor David Salisbury, chair of the Global Commission for the Certification of the Eradication of Poliomyelitis, talks us through the pr...

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