16/08/2018
GPEI partners, Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV), Outbreak countries, Outbreak response, Surveillance, Vaccination campaigns, Vaccines
Mobilizing against polio in Papua New Guinea
Take a look at how the Papua New Guinea Government, the World Health Organization, and partners of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative are responding to the country’s recent outbreak of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus.
Reposted with permission from gavi.org.
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