Despite challenges, polio vaccination campaigns have been carried out in Syria in response to an outbreak of vaccine-derived poliovirus

In July and August, health workers and volunteers vaccinated hundreds of thousands of children in targeted campaigns in Syria to protect the...

Saudi Arabia has issued health requirements for travellers during the Hajj season

Important lessons on stopping the poliovirus in the most challenging locations are moving the polio eradication programme closer to the fini...

Countries and partners pledge US$ 1.2 billion to protect 450 million children from polio every year

Michel Zaffran, Director of Polio at WHO, talks to us about vaccine-derived polioviruses (VDPV) and how WHO is working to stop the recent ou...

Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 outbreak has been confirmed in Deir-Ez-Zor Governorate

116 million children to be immunized from coast to coast across the continent, as regional emergency outbreak response intensifies

Ministries of health from around the world call for urgent measures to secure lasting polio-free world

In January, the polio programme is contributing to the protection of more than 4 million children against measles.

Regional emergency outbreak response is being further intensified, amid humanitarian crisis and insecurity.

GPEI appeals for support to respond to a polio outbreak in north-eastern Nigeria as part of the broader humanitarian response effort

Government officials from across the Lake Chad sub-region call for a co-ordinated regional response following the recent wild polio cases in...

Rapid multi-country response planned, as Nigeria declares national public health emergency

During the 69th World Health Assembly in Geneva global leaders have reaffirmed commitment to ending polio once and for all.