31/08/2020
How To Certify A Region As Wild Polio Free

Professor Rose Leke on polio eradication, gender and women in science.

20/08/2020
Young women leaders: Keep dreaming high

Dr. Ana Elena Chevez has a message for a new generation of women public health leaders.

28/07/2020
Five Rotary women leading the fight to end polio

Meet a few of the women in Rotary playing a pivotal role in the effort to eradicate the disease

24/06/2020
Gender-responsive leadership is central to end polio

Dr Fiona Braka, Immunization Team Lead for WHO Nigeria, speaks about fighting polio outbreaks and toppling gender barriers.

27/05/2020
Stronger role of women at all levels crucial to end polio for good

Melissa Corkum, Polio Outbreak Response Senior Manager for UNICEF, has dedicated a large part of her professional life to ending polio.

14/05/2020
Canada Announces New Commitments to GPEI Endgame Strategy

Pledge to help deliver polio vaccines to children worldwide.

02/04/2020
Meet the courageous women ending polio in Somalia

Health workers are the beating heart of every health system and the majority - seventy percent worldwide - are women. Meet Noora, Zainab and...

05/03/2020
Resilient women drive polio eradication in Pakistan

To end polio we must overcome gender barriers and support equality everywhere.

03/03/2020
Women Leaders in Polio Eradication: Dr Faten Kamel

Meet WHO’s Dr Faten Kamel, who has spent close to 25 years outsmarting the virus in the Middle East, Horn of Africa and Central Asia.

28/01/2020
Meet Anis, the tailor who became a polio eradicator

I want to help my people – polio is a danger to every child, and we should eradicate it

15/12/2019
Applying a gender lens to Nigeria’s surveillance network

Gender-disaggregated data drives progress in Nigeria’s polio eradication programme.

27/09/2019
We are doing so much more than eradicating polio

A series on the ‘plus’ in PolioPlus: preventing other diseases

24/09/2019
On the road with Somaliland’s dedicated polio vaccinators

Long commutes and cold box in hand, no place is too far away in the fight to end polio

18/09/2019
The behind-the-scene heroes against polio in Pakistan

Form by form, campaign by campaign, data handlers like Jan, Ali, and Bilal are helping to end polio.

11/09/2019
Polio eradication in Afghanistan: how women help

Despite juggling several hats, women have greatly improved the quality and outcome of polio campaigns. Read their testimonials.

03/09/2019
How did Nigeria get here?

Grassroots efforts got Nigeria over the barriers to polio vaccination

26/08/2019
Turning the tide

Vaccination and religious dialogue

03/07/2019
Hard-to-reach areas and long commutes? Challenge accepted

To reach every last child, health workers sometimes travel on motorcycles and walk for hours to deliver the all-important life-saving vaccin...

21/06/2019
Vaccine Heroes protect every child

Everyday people in Pakistan advocating for vaccinations

21/05/2019
Coffee with Polio Experts: Sini Ramo, Gender Analyst

Gender Analyst Sini Ramo talks about the relations between gender and polio eradication

21/05/2019
Gender and Polio Eradication

An animation explaining the relations between gender and polio eradication

19/03/2019
“Women are like grass, not trees”

Resilience and resolve are the keywords for women eradicating polio

08/03/2019
Pakistani women march ahead in the fight against polio

On International Women’s Day, we celebrate the role of women in the polio eradication efforts in Pakistan

07/03/2019
The linchpin of on-ground polio eradication: women health workers and leaders

Women health workers and have been highly effective in polio eradication efforts, often as the only point of contact in rural settings.

07/03/2019
Raising each other up:

A look at some of the women in Somalia’s polio programme