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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...

19/12/2022
Polio surveillance review yields results in Afghanistan

Recommendations from the international review of Afghanistan’s poliovirus surveillance system are yielding important results for the country...

12/12/2022
Getting ahead of the game

Qatar, supported by WHO, ramps up surveillance for polio during the FIFA World Cup 2022

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