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19/05/2016
Canada announces funding for polio eradication in Nigeria at the Women Deliver Conference in Copenhagen.
12/05/2016
The polio outbreak in Ukraine has been declared interrupted, but significant gaps in surveillance and immunization still need to be addressed.
12/05/2016
A video from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation highlights the essential role data and information play in finding and preventing the poliovirus.
09/05/2016
2 Swiss francs contributed by every inhabitant!
28/04/2016
This World Immunization Week, the global goal of polio eradication is closer than ever, although more needs to be done to deliver a world free from the disease
22/04/2016
Watch the countdown as 155 countries and territories stop using the trivalent oral polio vaccine in a globally synchronised switch to the bivalent vaccine
21/04/2016
Despite the end of the outbreak in the Middle East, a photo series shows how countries like Jordan are keeping up the fight against polio
21/04/2016
Despite the end of the outbreak in the Middle East, a photo series shows how countries like Jordan are keeping up the fight against polio
© WHO/J.Swan
While polio continues to circulate anywhere in the world, children everywhere remain a...
14/04/2016
155 countries around the world switching from trivalent OPV to bivalent OPV
12/04/2016
Partners of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative are taking important steps to mitigate the small risks associated with the switch
08/04/2016
The switch will see the replacement of the trivalent oral poliovirus vaccine (tOPV) with bivalent oral poliovirus vaccine (bOPV).
22/03/2016
An innovative new product may help the polio program to spare doses of IPV.
22/03/2016
There is now one month to go until the globally synchronised project in the history of vaccination: the removal of the type two component of the oral polio vaccine
