OVERVIEW The number of cases of polio that have occurred so far in 2015 is at its lowest point in history. Since the last report of the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB), Nigeria has been removed...
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...
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...
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...
Continent is on the way to finally being rid of the disease, but violent conflicts, particularly in Somalia and Nigeria, pose threat to immunisation programme Africa has achieved a year without any...
14 August 2015 – 11 August 2015 marked the one-year anniversary of the last reported case of polio in Somalia. To mark the occasion, the Federal Minister of Health of Somalia Dr Hawo Hassan Mohamed,...
Mogadishu, 11 August 2015 — Today marks the one-year anniversary of the last reported case of polio in Somalia. To mark the occasion, the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for...
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...
OVERVIEW Priority Needs • Acute food insecurity and high levels of malnutrition: 3 million people are in need of life-saving assistance and livelihood support, of which 731,000 are unable to meet...
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...