04/12/2023
Islamic Development Bank’s Funding Support Bolsters Pakistan’s Efforts to End Poliovirus for Good 

Islamic Development Bank announces a new US$100 million loan approved in 2023 to help ensure a polio-free Pakistan

25/10/2023
In Eastern Afghanistan, communities engage in polio eradication efforts, but desperately need clean water and sanitation

25 October 2023

24/10/2023
World Polio Day 2023: A global and urgent call to “Make Polio History”

24 October 2023

13/09/2023
GPEI Statement on the Independent Monitoring Board’s Review of its 2022-2026 Strategy

13/09/2023

04/09/2023
Polio leaders in Pakistan on extraordinary operations visit

Newly-appointed Pakistan leaders committed to delivering polio-free country

21/07/2023
GPEI delegation concludes visit to Pakistan

Says commitment to polio eradication remains commendable, interruption of wild poliovirus is possible in six months with support from commun...

22/06/2023
Contributing to a lasting legacy

The ‘father’ of polio laboratories in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

25/05/2023
Stakeholders Commit to A Renewed Strategic Framework on Polio Transition

Country experiences show that success on polio transition is context specific.

25/05/2023
One world: coming together, to achieve one common goal

Global leaders commit to ending polio once and for all

22/05/2023
Polio: As of today, the world’s only Public Health Emergency of International Concern

21 May 2023

18/05/2023
GPEI’s 35th Anniversary

From Polio to Progress

16/05/2023
G7 Heads of State and Health Ministers call for global support to achieving lasting polio-free world by 2026, ahead of WHA

Leaders commend polio value for broader public health emergencies and call for strengthened support to achieve polio-free world

01/05/2023
2023: A Critical Year for polio eradication efforts in northern Nigeria

Northern Nigeria is one of the consequential geographies that now hold the key to a polio-free world. 

24/04/2023
Vaccines, vaccinators, and tally sheets

From the field: polio vaccination campaign in Pakistan

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

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...

20/02/2023
Polio – A Congress to Build the Future!

25-27 May 2023, Nancy, France

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

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

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...

05/12/2022
Pakistan at excellent momentum to end polio, says global delegation

ISLAMABAD, DEC 2, 2022