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.
06/03/2023
Statement on stopping transmission of VDPV2 in Yemen’s northern governorates and in Somalia
Seventh meeting of the Regional Subcommittee for Polio Eradication and Outbreaks - 28 February 2023
27/02/2023
Leveraging civil society contributions to polio transition and integration
This report describes the initiatives implemented by four CSOs supported by the UN Foundation to enhance polio transition and integration ef...
23/02/2023
Global Polio Eradication Initiative commends Mozambique’s outbreak response
Senior representatives from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) today commended the Government of Mozambique for its ongoing poli...
20/02/2023
Polio – A Congress to Build the Future!
25-27 May 2023, Nancy, France
17/02/2023
Over 33 million children vaccinated against wild poliovirus in southern Africa
A year since Malawi confirmed its first case of WPV1 in 30 years, more than 33 million children across five southern African countries have...
14/02/2023
“Someone has to do this. And it’s us, here, now”
Rosemary Mukui Nzunza, the head of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) at the Centre for Virus Research, the Kenya Medical Research...
08/02/2023
Let’s make history
There’s commitment at every level to eradicate polio.
02/02/2023
Global health leaders urge world to be razor-sharp in focus to finish polio once and for all
At WHO Executive Board, experts discuss concrete ways to tackle last remaining polio strong-holds
31/01/2023
Gearing up to stop polio in Afghanistan and Pakistan
16 January 2023
30/01/2023
Syria takes steps to advance polio transition while strengthening essential health priorities
Integrating polio eradication expertise and infrastructure is critical to keep Syria polio-free, strengthen essential immunization and detec...
25/01/2023
2022 EMR-MENA Polio Outbreaks and Events at a Glance
This snapshot shows all polio events and outbreaks that occurred/were ongoing in the Eastern Mediterranean
Region (EMR) in 2022
24/01/2023
2023 – zero-dose children in seven subnational consequential geographies hold key to success
Polio programme must keep clear focus in 2023 on adapting operations amid broader humanitarian emergencies
16/01/2023
2023 – Focus on consequential geographies
This is the target year for interrupting all remaining poliovirus transmission globally, both in the remaining endemic countries and in outb...
12/01/2023
Polio-free India: It seemed impossible until it was done
Dr Hamid Jafari, Director of Polio for the WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean Region, reflects on his time eradicating polio in India and what less...
03/01/2023
In Afghanistan, communities keep an eye out for polio in one of the virus’s last frontiers
When a mother brought her young son to a clinic in Paghman, a town not far from the Afghan capital Kabul, Spogmai, a nurse on duty at the ti...
