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Polio outbreak in Somalia officially over

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Somalia
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UNICEF
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JOINT PRESS RELEASE NAIROBI, 22 October 2015 - The 2013-2014 polio outbreak in Somalia, which affected nearly 200 people, most of them children, has officially been declared over, 14 months after the...

Polio Eradication & Endgame Midterm Review July 2015

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World
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GPEI
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Executive Summary The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) leadership agreed at the time of the 2013–2018 Polio Eradication and Endgame Strategic Plan (PEESP) development that the programme...

Finding Every Last Poliovirus

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Kenya
Sources
WHO
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Surveillance Officers like Amina Ismail in Kenya spend their days chasing the poliovirus to its final hiding places, so that it can be stopped forever. Eradicating polio from the world forever will...

Sustaining Progress Against Polio in Ethiopia

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Ethiopia
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GPEI
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A high-level visit to Selam Health Centre in Addis Ababa this month marked continuing commitment to keeping Ethiopia polio-free On 14 July, 18 months since the last reported case of wild type polio...

Polio News, June 2015

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World
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GPEI
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In this issue: How Surveillance Works Containing a Polio Outbreak: Horn of Africa and Central Africa Review of the Polio Eradication and Endgame Strategic Plan Global Voices in Support of Polio...

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