News - GPEI
01/09/2014
Innovative campaigns in Nigeria help Africa edge closer to polio eradication

The final frontiers to polio eradication in Nigeria are being addressed through an increased focus on immunization in border settlements.

25/08/2014
United Efforts in Central Africa Tackle the Polio Outbreak

Possibility of undetected circulation

07/08/2014
Remoteness not a Challenge for the Poliovirus

But a major challenge for polio fighters and requires complex coordination

17/07/2014
An Important Opportunity Amid a Crisis

Vaccinating those displaced from North Waziristan

24/06/2014
Expert Spotlight on Somalia

The Horn of Africa outbreak has slowed, but the threat of spread persists: pockets of children in hard-to-reach areas are still unable to re...

13/06/2014
Polio Vaccinators Return to Bara, Pakistan, after Five Years

For the first time in five years, a door-to-door anti-polio campaign took place from 7-8 June in Bara sub-division of Khyber Agency in the F...

30/05/2014
Dr Ciro de Quadros, immunization champion, dies at age 74

Global Polio Eradication Initiative mourns loss of “public health leader and true hero of our times”

20/05/2014
Time to Act in ‘Real Time’

Rotary Club Marseille launches smart-watch to raise funds for polio eradication

19/05/2014
End Polio Now

Rotary illuminates Easter Island

16/05/2014
Is every child being reached?

For the first time in the Middle East, mobile technology helps answer this question, in Iraq.

05/05/2014
To Protect Progress, WHO Declares Polio Spread Public Health Emergency of International Concern

To Protect Progress, WHO Declares Polio Spread Public Health Emergency of International Concern

30/04/2014
Updated WHO vaccination recommendations for travellers published

Updated recommendations endorsed at last month’s SAGE meeting

28/04/2014
WHO convenes International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on polio

To discuss international spread of wild poliovirus

07/04/2014
First Mass Vaccination Campaigns Start since Polio found in Iraq

Middle East polio outbreak response continues

06/04/2014
Polio eradication features at global immunization expert meeting

SAGE reviews current status of global polio eradication effort

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