24/04/2024
50 Years of Impact: How Polio Eradication and EPI Demonstrate What Is Humanly Possible

By Dr Hamid Jafari, Director, Polio Eradication, WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region

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...

06/11/2020
UNICEF and WHO call for emergency action to avert major measles and polio epidemics

As COVID-19 disrupts immunizations, urgent action needed to protect most vulnerable children from deadly and debilitating diseases

23/05/2019
Launch of Polio Endgame Strategy 2019-2023

Global Polio Eradication Initiative stakeholders convene to celebrate the Endgame Strategy 2019-2023

09/04/2019
The future of polio eradication efforts? The Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) weighs in

Polio programme assessed by experts at the global immunization meeting

16/10/2018
Pakistan’s polio fighters lend a hand in the battle against measles

Over 31 million children will be vaccinated against measles in Pakistan in a countrywide immunization campaign supported by the polio progra...

12/07/2018
Coffee with Polio Experts: Honorine Mollard Billard, WHO

Honorine Mollard Billard, Polio Eradication Officer at WHO, speaks to us about critical country support to vaccination campaigns in Lao PDR...

29/06/2018
“These places prove our biggest challenge”

In the sahel surrounding Lake Chad, health workers provide vaccines to refugees and internally displaced people.

27/06/2018
Raising immunity in northern Nigeria

In hard-to-reach communities, a Canada-funded project is opening up access to health.

09/04/2018
Bill Gates and Aliko Dangote support polio eradication efforts in Nigeria

Gates and Dangote emphasized the need to eradicate polio, strengthen routine immunization, and improve primary health care.

02/02/2018
Coffee with Polio Experts: Mohammed Mohammedi, WHO

Mohammed Mohammedi, country support officer for the Eastern Mediterranean region, speaks to us about the main challenges facing countries an...