Integrated polio and measles campaign protects thousands of children.
How the African Region is Celebrating the End of Wild Polio while cVDPV Outbreaks Continue
Personnel from the country’s long-running polio programme have been trained to detect COVID-19 cases.
Health workers are the beating heart of every health system and the majority - seventy percent worldwide - are women. Meet Noora, Zainab and...
In face of challenging epidemiology, global health experts endorse new cVDPV2 response strategy
Meet the experts who deploy at a moment’s notice to fight outbreaks across the region.
Kenya, Mozambique and Niger have curbed polio outbreaks that erupted in different episodes over the past 24 months, World Health Organizatio...
At 25,747 alerts and counting, the AVADAR app is a pivotal tool in the disease surveillance arsenal.
Three-year-old Junaisa is the first child in the Philippines to contract polio since 2001. This is her story.
Mahamed combines sports with innovative polio immunization messages
Health leaders at 72nd World Health Assembly welcome new Polio Endgame Strategy 2019-23: acknowledge a lot accomplished, a lot more to do to...
Papua and West Papua provinces rise to challenges of stopping polio
Women are ensuring that the children in Papua New Guinea are protected and vaccinated
New action plan to close gaps in polio detection
WHO Executive Board’s strong push to finish the job
Progress in the challenging last mile of eradication
Following confirmation of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) on 8 January 2019, planning for an outbreak response is und...
As the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) enters its 31st year, the Chairs of the effort’s main global advisory bodies issue an extr...
Jean-Marc Olivé, Chairman of the Technical Advisory Group, reflects on what needs to be done to end polio in the Horn of Africa.
To truly ensure no child is left behind, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative is reaching out to some of the most remote communities in t...
Mohamed Shire, a polio eradication expert from Somalia, speaks about lessons from a life tirelessly working to eradicate first smallpox, the...
A review committee met in Nairobi to assess progress of the African region towards being certified polio-free
After an 18-month long intensive vaccination campaign in the face of a poliovirus outbreak in Syria, the outbreak has been successfully stop...
In the Horn of Africa, health workers are using application-based technology to respond to poliovirus outbreaks with greater speed and accur...
Darcy Levison, WHO Polio Eradication Officer, speaks to us about the logistical challenges of reaching every single child with polio vaccine...
