GPEI-News

24/04/2023

Eliminating a disease is rare: GPEI leadership on polio eradication in Pakistan

Last year, the Polio Oversight Board visited Pakistan twice, acknowledging the unprecedented support and commitment by all stakeholders to e...

18/04/2023

Vaccination on wheels for nomadic children

Pakistan’s polio program has launched a novel initiative to reach children of nomadic families with polio and essential vaccines so that the...

11/04/2023

After the Floods

How the polio program came together to help flood-affected frontline workers

31/03/2023

A word from the Chair: 2023 – Aiming for Success through Ongoing Analysis of Global Effort

Rigorous independent review to assess status to meeting end-2023 critical goals

30/03/2023

Two years since rollout of novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2): How’s it all working out?

An interview with co-leads of GPEI’s nOPV Working Group on nOPV2 field use to date

21/03/2023

Polio programme provides vital support to nationwide measles vaccination in Afghanistan

21 March 2023

16/03/2023

GPEI Statement on cVDPV2 detections in Burundi and Democratic Republic of the Congo

16 March 2023

15/03/2023

Rotary International President insists Rotarians have to finish the job of eradicating polio

Rotary International President, Jennifer Jones, is on a brief tour of London. Speaking at the House of Commons she said that Rotary had to d...

10/03/2023

Eastern Mediterranean health leaders call for redoubled efforts for a defining year for polio

On Tuesday 28 February 2023, ministers and high-level delegates from across the Eastern Mediterranean Region participated in the seventh mee...

09/03/2023

Confidence in surveillance essential for certifying a polio-free world

Latest recommendations from independent global certification body

08/03/2023

This is what lab leaders look like: voices of women leading lab innovations to end polio

In the polio eradication programme, women are forces to be reckoned with. They play important and integral roles at all levels of the progra...

08/03/2023

Co-designing solutions – and futures – at the Pakistan Polio Programme

At the workshops, women health workers were the chief guests while everyone else had one job: to listen.

06/03/2023

Statement on stopping wild poliovirus transmission in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Seventh meeting of the Regional Subcommittee for Polio Eradication and Outbreaks - 28 February 2023