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14/09/2015
Africa’s Great Polio Legacy

Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa, has called for the lessons from polio eradication to be built on to ensure that no ch...

14/09/2015
Finding Every Last Poliovirus

Learn about the important role played by Surveillance Officers like Amina Ismail, who spend their days chasing the poliovirus to its final h...

09/09/2015
Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus in Mali

Outbreak stems from poor immunization coverage

09/09/2015
Stopping Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus Outbreaks

Knowing how to prevent and respond to outbreaks of polio is the bread and butter of the work of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, inc...

01/09/2015
Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus confirmed in Ukraine

Emergency outbreak response being planned

26/08/2015
What does Nigeria need to do to become polio-free?

"This is the time for Nigeria to be very vigilant, alert and to maintain its extraordinary efforts," says Dr Arshad Quddus from the World He...

20/08/2015
Pakistan Becomes the Second Polio-Endemic Country to Introduce IPV

Reaching four million children every year, the introduction of IPV will boost immunity against polio in one of the last countries with wild...

18/08/2015
Polio Teams Support Health of Remote Communities in Nigeria

As Africa makes progress towards becoming polio-free, the polio infrastructure in Nigeria is helping to bring other health services to the m...

14/08/2015
Introducing the Inactivated Polio Vaccine: How Far Have We Come?

As part of the most ambitious globally synchronised vaccine introduction in history, the inactivated polio vaccine is being introduced into...

14/08/2015
Forty thousand health workers fan across Yemen

Ensuring children are protected from polio and measles

13/08/2015
Papua New Guinea Introduces the Inactivated Polio Vaccine

Part of largest globally-coordinated vaccine introduction project in history, the introduction of the inactivated polio vaccine will help to...

11/08/2015
Is Africa polio-free?

One year since the last case of wild polio on the African continent, we look at what needs to be done to turn this small step into a victory...

06/08/2015
The People at the Heart of Polio Eradication in Afghanistan

Through this series of photographs, meet religious leaders, health care workers, volunteers, vaccinators, programme monitors and parents as...

29/07/2015
Tracing Every Last Poliovirus

28/07/2015
Children Reached with Polio Vaccines in Yemen

A humanitarian pause in Yemen allows children to be reached with the protection they desperately need against polio

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