The legacy of isolation is a double-edged sword for children in Nuristan, Eastern Afghanistan
In Afghanistan’s remote and mountainous Nuristan province, children are highly vulnerable to polio and other deadly diseases due to multiple, intersecting needs that stem from long-standing isolation and multiple deprivations.
30/05/2016
Global Leaders Commit to Polio Eradication at World Health Assembly
During the 69th World Health Assembly in Geneva global leaders have reaffirmed commitment to ending polio once and for all.
29/05/2016
Stopping Circulating Vaccine Derived Poliovirus in Lao
19/05/2016
Canada Helping Women Deliver for Eradication
Canada announces funding for polio eradication in Nigeria at the Women Deliver Conference in Copenhagen.
12/05/2016
Polio Interrupted in Ukraine, but Efforts Must Continue
The polio outbreak in Ukraine has been declared interrupted, but significant gaps in surveillance and immunization still need to be addresse...
12/05/2016
How Data is Helping to Fight Polio
A video from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation highlights the essential role data and information play in finding and preventing the pol...
09/05/2016
Principality of Liechtenstein Supports Polio Eradication
2 Swiss francs contributed by every inhabitant!
29/04/2016
Understanding Surveillance
29/04/2016
Explaining Environmental Surveillance
28/04/2016
The Final Frontier in Polio Eradication
This World Immunization Week, the global goal of polio eradication is closer than ever, although more needs to be done to deliver a world fr...
22/04/2016
The Global Switch: As It Happens
Watch the countdown as 155 countries and territories stop using the trivalent oral polio vaccine in a globally synchronised switch to the bi...
21/04/2016
Protecting Children Against Polio in Jordan
14/04/2016
Polio-Free World in Sight as Largest Vaccine Rollout in History Kicks Off
155 countries around the world switching from trivalent OPV to bivalent OPV
12/04/2016
Risk mitigation with the global switch
Partners of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative are taking important steps to mitigate the small risks associated with the switch
08/04/2016
Global synchronisation and the switch
The switch will see the replacement of the trivalent oral poliovirus vaccine (tOPV) with bivalent oral poliovirus vaccine (bOPV).
22/03/2016
One Month To Go until the Switch from Trivalent to Bivalent Oral Polio Vaccine
There is now one month to go until the globally synchronised project in the history of vaccination: the removal of the type two component of...
