20/11/2025
Puppets help win hearts for polio vaccination in Quetta

Balochistan Emergency Operations Center’s creative World Polio Day campaign reaches children in high-risk areas

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.