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26/10/2010
More than 72 million children to be immunized across 15 countries to tackle remaining risks
Dakar/Brazzaville, 26 October – This week, Africa seizes an unprecedented chance to drive out polio when 15 countries across the continent launch a syn...
22/10/2010
Ministers of Health from Africa, the Eastern Mediterranean, Europe and South-East Asia have come together at Regional Committee meetings of the World Health Organization (WHO) to discuss urgent measures to interrupt the remaining chains of polio transmissi...
02/09/2010
1.5 million children vaccinated
September 2010 / Kabul, Afghanistan - In a region that has been polio-free for nearly a decade, a new polio case has been detected in the Imam Sahib district of the north-eastern Afghan province of Kunduz bordering Tajikist...
16/08/2010
On 8 August 2010, the President of Chad, Idriss Deby Itno, received the prestigious Rotary 'Polio Eradication Champion' award.
The award was given in recognition of the President's personal engagement in Chad's polio eradication efforts. Officially presen...
11/06/2010
Tajikistan has held four rounds of vaccination activities
16/02/2010
Polio, peace and partnership
For the past three days, 19 000 health workers travelled from house-to-house in 14 provinces to reach 2.8 million children under 5 years of age in southern, south-eastern, western and eastern Afghanistan. The immunization...
16/11/2009
Young pilgrims to the Hajj from polio-infected countries must be immunized with oral polio vaccine, the Ministry of Health of Saudi Arabia has demanded.
The Ministry of Health of Saudi Arabia has once again issued a requirement that all visitors aged unde...
13/02/2009
Shows final stages of eradication effort
A film depicting the challenges in the final stages of polio eradication has been nominated for an Academy Award in the best documentary short subject category. "The Final Inch" chronicles the challenges health org...
27/12/2008
Police and students band together to build support for polio eradication in Pakistan
All around the world they’re much the same… they’re red and round with big bold lettering.
But in Islamabad, Pakistan, drivers may have cause to pause and look again....
23/02/2008
Message on British Houses of Parliament to celebrate 103 years of Rotary
A giant Rotary wheel - the organization's logo - and the words "End Polio Now" were beamed onto the side of the House of Commons to the left of Big Ben on Rotary International's...
