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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

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

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