30 April 2024
Across Afghanistan, community advocacy to increase vaccine uptake for polio and other deadly diseases has some unsung champions: the local w...
New commitment will help vaccinate 370 million children against polio over five years, preventing paralysis and even death, and strengthen h...
By Dr Hamid Jafari, Director, Polio Eradication, WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
9 April 2024
Interviews with four experts
26 March 2024
The Female Mobiliser Vaccinator (FMV) programme supported by UNICEF and partners continues to play a critical role in efforts to reach every...
Using creative and locally acceptable social behaviour change outreach tactics to engage communities in building trust and reaching children...
Philanthropy’s once-in-a-generation opportunity
Health leaders call for focused efforts in endemic and most consequential geographies
WHO grants prequalification to innovative polio vaccine, nOPV2, as nearly 1 billion doses are administered
As the year draws to a close, efforts intensify against the virus in 2024
Islamic Development Bank announces a new US$100 million loan approved in 2023 to help ensure a polio-free Pakistan
25 October 2023
24 October 2023
13/09/2023
Newly-appointed Pakistan leaders committed to delivering polio-free country
Says commitment to polio eradication remains commendable, interruption of wild poliovirus is possible in six months with support from commun...
The ‘father’ of polio laboratories in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
Global leaders commit to ending polio once and for all
Country experiences show that success on polio transition is context specific.
21 May 2023
