04/05/2026
Pakistan and Afghanistan unite to protect millions of children in synchronized polio campaigns

Amid geopolitical tensions and insecurity across the Region, health workers in Pakistan and Afghanistan came together in April in a synchron...

24/10/2025
No Child Left Behind: PNG’s Fight Against Polio

07/10/2025
Health leaders unite to tackle polio across the Horn of Africa and Yemen

06/10/2025
Nigeria launches large-scale vaccination campaign to protect 106 million children against measles, rubella and polio

15/07/2025
WUENIC 2024: What latest immunization estimates mean for polio eradication

New national immunization coverage data released by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF.

12/06/2025
From Kabul to Kandahar: Inside Afghanistan’s first polio campaigns of 2025

28/02/2025
Humanitarian access improves quality of polio vaccination campaign in the Gaza Strip

Polio campaign in Gaza Strip reaches around 603 000 children with better access - Joint statement from WHO and UNICEF

19/02/2025
Mass polio vaccination campaign to continue in the Gaza Strip

Joint statement from WHO and UNICEF

11/12/2024
Protecting against polio and Lymphatic Filariasis in Madagascar

30/04/2024
Closing the gap: the Afghan women gaining ground against vaccine refusals and zero dose children

Across Afghanistan, community advocacy to increase vaccine uptake for polio and other deadly diseases has some unsung champions: the local w...

13/03/2024
Sudan to respond to new emergence of variant poliovirus in Red Sea State

11 March 2024

04/03/2024
I don’t want children to be affected by poliovirus like I was

A polio survivor in Nangarhar shares his challenges and advises parents to vaccinate their children

08/11/2023
For Yemen’s children, the path to a polio diagnosis starts with a remarkable road trip

Making the arduous journeys that underpin Yemen’s effort to end its poliovirus outbreak

09/10/2023
Enhancing polio vaccination campaign quality in Madagascar

22 September 2023

24/04/2023
Vaccines, vaccinators, and tally sheets

From the field: polio vaccination campaign in Pakistan

18/04/2023
Vaccination on wheels for nomadic children

Pakistan’s polio program has launched a novel initiative to reach children of nomadic families with polio and essential vaccines so that the...

12/12/2022
Getting ahead of the game

Qatar, supported by WHO, ramps up surveillance for polio during the FIFA World Cup 2022

03/03/2022
GPEI Statement on the cVDPV Outbreaks in the Northern Governorates in Yemen

1 March 2022

02/02/2022
Catch-up polio immunization campaign to begin in Ukraine

cVDPV2 outbreak response continues in the country

21/12/2021
Pakistan polio snapshot – November 2021

Update on polio eradication efforts in Pakistan for November 2021

01/12/2021
Pakistan polio snapshot – October 2021

Update on polio eradication efforts in Pakistan for October 2021

09/11/2021
No polio detected in Tajikistan since third round of supplemental immunization

Polio returned to Tajikistan last year when a circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) outbreak was declared in the province o...

03/11/2021
Afghanistan polio snapshot – September 2021

Update on polio eradication efforts in Afghanistan for September 2021

19/10/2021
Pakistan polio snapshot – September 2021

Update on polio eradication efforts in Pakistan for September 2021

14/09/2021
Pakistan polio snapshot – August 2021

Update on polio eradication efforts in Pakistan for August 2021