News - GPEI
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

27/07/2015
Sustaining Progress Against Polio in Ethiopia

A high-level visit to Selam Health Centre in Addis Ababa this month marked continuing commitment to keeping Ethiopia polio-free

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