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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on July 24 announced an additional US$9.5 million support to the Pakistan Polio Eradication Initiative (PEI). The funding will be used to vaccinate approximately 16 million children during door-to-door immunization campaigns in 84 highest-risk districts as well as an additional US$376,000 to provide personal protective equipment against COVID-19 for the frontline campaign workers. Read more...

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Summary of new WPV and cVDPV viruses this week (AFP cases and ES positives):

• • Afghanistan: one cVDPV2 environmental sample
  • Gambia: two cVDPV2 positive environmental samples
  • Madagascar : one cVDPV1 positive environmental sample
  • Nigeria: 18 cVDPV2 cases and 12 cVDPV2 positive environmental samples
  • Senegal: one cVDPV2 case
  • Uganda : two cVDPV2 positive environmental samples