Progress made, momentum needed
Mobile technology improving the mapping and tracking of poliovirus materials in labs
Latest recommendations from independent global certification body
New guidance anticipated to quicken progress in achieving necessary safeguards
GPEI head Michel Zaffran sheds light on the global cVDPV2 situation, the need for type 2-containing OPV, and implications for containment
Global eradication of wild poliovirus type 3 declared on World Polio Day
Eastern Mediterranean Regional Commission for Certification of Poliomyelitis Eradication weighs in
Public health legend and head of the Containment Advisory Group Professor David Heymann talks about some of the similarities and differences...
Polioviruses will be kept after eradication in a limited number of laboratories and vaccine manufacturing facilities worldwide. Containment...
Polio programme assessed by experts at the global immunization meeting
Global Commission for Certification of Poliomyelitis Eradication (GCC) meet in Geneva to intensify its work on global certification criteria
WHO seeks input on guidance document
Steve Oberste, chief of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Peter Borus, head of the Kenya Medical Research Institut...
What did we learn?
We speak to Dr Arlene King, Chair of the RCC for the Americas, and GCC Containment Working Group, about the vital importance of safe and sec...
Polio discussions at this year’s World Health Assembly
David Heymann, long-time public health expert, discusses what lessons smallpox eradication teaches us in eradicating a disease, and why it i...
Sweden is the first country to formally engage in the global poliovirus containment process
The global intensification of efforts to appropriately contain polioviruses is critical.
Why we are developing new polio vaccines for the post-eradication era.
The World Health Organization is currently inviting vendors to submit an Expression of Interest for the provision of technical support for t...
Professor David Salisbury, chair of the Global Commission for the Certification of the Eradication of Poliomyelitis, talks us through the pr...
National authorities for containment encouraged to initiate first steps in containment certification process
With eradication closer than ever, delegates to the World Health Assembly discussed how to finish the job and address the challenges of the...
