24/07/2018
“I won’t stop working until every child is protected”

Afia is part of one of the biggest female work forces in Afghanistan.

23/07/2018
Strengthening vaccine trust in Pakistan

How a vaccine refuser became an advocate for polio eradication.

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.

22/06/2018
Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1 confirmed in Papua New Guinea

Outbreak response to be launched to stop further spread of the virus

20/06/2018
Stopping polio at the border

Protecting refugees, returnees and other travelers from the poliovirus is a full-time job along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

15/06/2018
Update on suspected polio case in Venezuela

Following unconfirmed reports on 8 June of suspected polio re-emergence in Venezuela, final laboratory testing has confirmed the cause of th...

13/06/2018
Acute flaccid paralysis case under investigation in Venezuela

In response to media reports about a polio case in Venezuela which emerged last week, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) wishes...

25/05/2018
“My polio-free district is a step towards a polio-free Pakistan”

Meet a doctor at the frontline of polio eradication

24/05/2018
No mountain too high: Ending polio in Laos

Immunizing every child in remote communities is a top priority for vaccinators like Daeng

24/05/2018
Ending polio in Afghanistan: Big plan, small details

How do vaccinators ensure that every child is reached?

04/05/2018
Sweden takes important first step to demonstrate containment of type-2 poliovirus

Sweden is the first country to formally engage in the global poliovirus containment process

23/04/2018
Reaching the underserved in Syria with polio vaccines for the first time

In January, children in Raqqa city received polio vaccines for the first time in two years as families return to the devastated city.

20/04/2018
Vaccine facilitation in Nigeria: Predictable in its unpredictability

A week in the life of Auta, a vaccine facilitator in Borno State

10/04/2018
Welcome to Poliopolis: An nOPV2 clinical trial

How a container village in Belgium is helping us test new polio vaccines.

06/04/2018
Coffee with Polio Experts: Dr Ondrej Mach, WHO

Why we are developing new polio vaccines for the post-eradication era.

21/03/2018
Ten million children. 70 000 workers. Five days.

What does it take to vaccinate every child in Afghanistan?

16/02/2018
The Two Polio Vaccines

Polio can’t be cured, but it can be prevented. Two important tools help to prevent polio – two safe, effective vaccines. Find out about the...

16/02/2018
Polio vaccination, again?

In Afghanistan, frontline health workers explain to parents why the polio vaccine must be delivered multiple times

29/12/2017
Capturing lessons from polio eradication

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is partnering with institutions in seven countries to help document and disseminate knowledg...

21/12/2017
Coffee with Polio Experts: Carolyn Sein, WHO

Carolyn Sein, Technical Officer for the GPEI programme, talks to us about circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses, and the important differ...