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.

21/08/2024
Personal tragedy turns a polio vaccine refusal into a vaccine advocate

11/06/2024
WHO polio workers reflect on their role in 2022 Afghanistan earthquake response

22/04/2024
GPEI partners join in celebrating 50 years of EPI

World Immunization Week highlights the importance of immunization globally

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...

01/07/2022
WHO’s chief guidance for containing polioviruses revised

New guidance anticipated to quicken progress in achieving necessary safeguards

13/04/2022
SAGE urges global action on unique polio opportunity

With wild polio at lowest levels in history, SAGE also turns focus on post-eradication

30/03/2022
Somalia ‘Call to Action’ Summit for Polio

High-level summit held to take urgent action to end polio in country

10/02/2022
Dr Pascal Mkanda retires from WHO Regional Office for Africa

From a remote village in Malawi called Chinthenche to Zambia, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and finally the WHO Regional Office for Africa.

13/11/2020
Novel Oral Polio Vaccine type 2 (nOPV2) granted EUL recommendation

WHO has issued an Emergency Use Listing recommendation for the type 2 novel oral polio vaccine (nOPV2)

13/11/2020
Recommandation d’autorisation d’utilisation d’urgence pour un nouveau vaccin

Nouvel outil à utiliser pour lutter contre le PVDVc2

07/05/2020
Not Without a Trace

Dr Peter Brauer, a polio survivor and expert on treatment of Post-Polio Syndrome (PPS), illustrates his personal experiences in a moving and...

29/04/2020
Polio has forever changed the lives of Ihsanullah, Safia and Masood

A reminder of why vaccines are so important.

22/01/2020
How an abandoned hospital in Karachi became an asset for community health

Exploring the ‘plus’ in PolioPlus.

23/08/2019
Nigeria three years free from wild poliovirus

A milestone in an ongoing journey to achieve global polio eradication

27/06/2019
Continuing innovation to reach every last child

Research underway on a newer tool to protect children from polio and sustain a polio-free world

25/06/2019
Braving the waves

Reaching underserved populations with immunization in the Niger Delta

21/06/2019
Vaccine Heroes protect every child

Everyday people in Pakistan advocating for vaccinations

10/05/2019
Five ways the fight against polio is a fight against other diseases

Decades-long polio infrastructure has spill-over benefits across larger public health interventions

09/05/2019
Inactivated Polio Vaccine now introduced worldwide

Momentous global effort enables record-breaking milestone for polio and immunisation

24/01/2019
Polio outbreak confirmed in Mozambique

Following confirmation of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) on 8 January 2019, planning for an outbreak response is und...

23/01/2019
“To succeed by 2023”- extraordinary joint statement to Polio Eradicators

As the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) enters its 31st year, the Chairs of the effort’s main global advisory bodies issue an extr...

20/12/2018
A targeted outbreak response: reaching out to Somalia’s high-risk populations

In the Horn of Africa polio outbreak, immunization efforts are focusing on a group known as “special populations”.

19/12/2018
Djibouti carries out mass immunization activity to protect children against polio amid outbreaks

Early analysis of campaign data points to a successful vaccination round in a polio-free country at risk of possible importation.

14/12/2018
Going the distance to end polio

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...