Launch of updated Global Polio Surveillance Action Plan
20 November 2023
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...
The ‘father’ of polio laboratories in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
Twenty years ago, Thongbotho Mphoyakgosi, wanted to be a social worker. “But fate had me here,” she laughs, as she gestures to her surroundi...
Latest recommendations from independent global certification body
Recommendations from the international review of Afghanistan’s poliovirus surveillance system are yielding important results for the country...
Qatar, supported by WHO, ramps up surveillance for polio during the FIFA World Cup 2022
Dr Abdinoor Mohamed, an epidemiologist tells us about his team's travel to Afghanistan to review the country’s polio surveillance system, vi...
29 July 2022
Wild poliovirus type 1 detected in Lilongwe, Malawi
How the African Region is Celebrating the End of Wild Polio while cVDPV Outbreaks Continue
Update on polio eradication efforts in Afghanistan for February 2020
To prevent a possible outbreak, WHO and national health authorities have been implementing vaccination campaigns and boosting disease survei...
Ensuring nomadic children receive their polio vaccines is a formidable task.
Update on polio eradication efforts in Pakistan for October 2019
Update on polio eradication efforts in Afghanistan for November 2019
Gender-disaggregated data drives progress in Nigeria’s polio eradication programme.
At 25,747 alerts and counting, the AVADAR app is a pivotal tool in the disease surveillance arsenal.
In Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, dedicated environmental surveillance teams search for the poliovirus in the city’s drains.
Decades-long polio infrastructure has spill-over benefits across larger public health interventions
Women are ensuring that the children in Papua New Guinea are protected and vaccinated
Polio programme assessed by experts at the global immunization meeting
South Sudan leverages Smart Interactive visualization of Disease surveillance and Routine Immunization assessments
