At the earliest signs of the ongoing conflict in Sudan, in the middle of April, WHO’s country team sprang into action. After all, conflict a...
Kinshasa, 7 July 2023
Global leaders commit to ending polio once and for all
Northern Nigeria is one of the consequential geographies that now hold the key to a polio-free world.
On Tuesday 28 February 2023, ministers and high-level delegates from across the Eastern Mediterranean Region participated in the seventh mee...
Seventh meeting of the Regional Subcommittee for Polio Eradication and Outbreaks - 28 February 2023
Senior representatives from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) today commended the Government of Mozambique for its ongoing poli...
A year since Malawi confirmed its first case of WPV1 in 30 years, more than 33 million children across five southern African countries have...
Rosemary Mukui Nzunza, the head of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) at the Centre for Virus Research, the Kenya Medical Research...
Integrating polio eradication expertise and infrastructure is critical to keep Syria polio-free, strengthen essential immunization and detec...
This snapshot shows all polio events and outbreaks that occurred/were ongoing in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) in 2022
This is the target year for interrupting all remaining poliovirus transmission globally, both in the remaining endemic countries and in outb...
As 2022 draws to a close, independent technical bodies from key epi-centres dive deep on what it will take to achieve success in 2023
Together, we can end polio!
Tuesday 11 October 2022
The Republic of Sudan closed a polio outbreak on 15 September 2022. It had paralyzed 58 children across 42 districts before it stopped circu...
29 July 2022
WHO Geographic Information System (GIS) equips over 200 specialists across Africa with essential digital mapping and Mobile Health skills to...
With cVDPV1 and cVDPV2 outbreaks unfolding against the backdrop of a major humanitarian crisis, polio surveillance has never been tougher –...
New guidance anticipated to quicken progress in achieving necessary safeguards
G7 and Commonwealth Heads of Government call for strengthened support to global polio eradication effort
22 June 2022
Medical doctors and religious teachers play a crucial role in building trust and convincing families to vaccinate their children against pol...
The first supplementary polio campaign in eight years puts caregivers to the test
Ananda talks about development of the nOPV2 vaccine its pathway to rollout, and field performance