The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) stands tall on the foundation of millions of women’s efforts and voices.
Together, we end polio!
More than 3000 scientists and health experts from 115 countries urge the world to fully fund eradication strategy following resurgence of di...
Tuesday 11 October 2022
11 October 2022
19 September 2022
One year on from Afghanistan’s transition of power in August 2021, WHO’s polio eradication programme has made critical gains – but the job i...
Parameters for global eradication revisited
Group issues recommendations to tackle both WPV1 outbreak in south-east Africa and variants across sub-Saharan Africa
Sports stars unite for the world’s biggest celebrity football match to raise support toward polio eradication.
World Health Assembly challenged to take urgent action before window of opportunity closes to eradicate polio; tackle cVDPVs with same urgen...
Meeting in Berlin focused on supporting vaccine equity and pandemic response in developing countries
With wild polio at lowest levels in history, SAGE also turns focus on post-eradication
Polio workers in Afghanistan like Subhania are working hard to protect children against polio and other vaccine preventable diseases.
Local health authorities conducting investigations to determine source of virus and potential risk of further spread
Wild poliovirus type 1 detected in Lilongwe, Malawi
WHO Executive Board urges intensified efforts to give world one less infectious disease to worry about and work towards sustainability of ga...
Soni Faisal’s work to eradicate polio has been as healing for her as it has been for the children she’s determined to help.
2021 may go down in history as the turning point in the global effort to eradicate polio.
High level commitment to ending polio in Pakistan by regional UN leadership
For a few incredible eradicators, a life’s purpose doesn’t stop at retirement
More often than not, the road to a meaningful triumph is a bumpy one.
Despite success against wild polio in the African region, outbreaks of the non-wild form of polio, cVDPV2, continue. With continued country...
Learn how the type 2 novel oral polio vaccine (nOPV2) is being rolled out across Africa to help more sustainably address outbreaks of a non-...
Afghanistan’s Polio Eradication Initiative continues operations amidst ongoing instability in the country
