News - GPEI
13/01/2017
India celebrates six years polio free

Today we are proud to be celebrating the sixth anniversary of the last case of polio in India.

12/01/2017
Pakistan’s Rise to Zero

Transit vaccination: fleeting interaction, permanent benefit

10/01/2017
Innovation Series: How Robots Are Helping to End Polio

Automated machines at the CDC are increasing the number of samples tested for polio and for immunity against it.

19/12/2016
Launching a Rapid Response to Reach Nigeria’s Last Child

Meet the frontline health workers and community mobilizers who are striving to reach and protect some of the world’s most vulnerable childre...

16/12/2016
Innovation Series: Two countries, one team

Afghanistan and Pakistan are proving that countries are stronger together in the fight to stop the poliovirus.

13/12/2016
Populations on the Move: Vaccinating Every Child in Afghanistan

Through this photo story, meet some of the health care workers and families ensuring all children are protected against polio on the borders...

13/12/2016
Coffee with Polio Experts: Carol Pandak, Rotary International

A chat about Rotary’s role in polio eradication with Carol Pandak, PolioPlus Director for Rotary International

09/12/2016
Surveillance a top priority on Pakistan’s mission to eradicate polio

Pakistan is building a sensitive system to find every last virus by training surveillance officers, scaling up the workforce and increasing...

08/12/2016
Somali Islamic Scholars Pledge Support for Immunization

A National Islamic Advisory Group has been established in Somalia to support polio eradication and routine immunization.

07/12/2016
Innovation Series: Clinical Trials Are Bringing Polio Eradication Within Reach

Clinical trials are constantly finding ways to improve the tools and methods used to protect children against polio, even in the most diffic...

25/11/2016
Vaccinating Children Amidst Insecurity in South Sudan

WHO, UNICEF and partners have reached 1.1 million children with the oral polio vaccine in South Sudan this November

24/11/2016
Intensifying Outbreak Response Efforts Across Nigeria and the Lake Chad Basin

Regional emergency outbreak response is being further intensified, amid humanitarian crisis and insecurity.

23/11/2016
Polio partner named Outstanding Foundation

Rotary Foundation has been recognized as the Outstanding Foundation of 2016 by the Association of Fundraising Professionals

17/11/2016
Innovation Series: The Last Millimetre

Research is delivering faster, cheaper and easier ways to administer the injectable inactivated polio vaccine to every last child

08/11/2016
Innovation Series: How a New Method of Delivering the Inactivated Polio Vaccine Could Help Overcome Global Supply Challenges

With SAGE recommending the use of fractional doses of the inactivated polio vaccine, a solution has been found to address global supply cons...

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