The Polio Oversight Board (POB) held its second meeting of the year virtually to discuss the programme’s financial requirements for 2021, to receive an update on the recommendations of the GPEI...
Context The Polio Endgame Strategy 2019-2023, the Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA 2030), and the Gavi 5.0 Strategic Plan (2021-25) each committed to working in a new, systematic, and integrated way to...
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Professor Rose Leke, an infectious disease specialist, has been the chairperson of the ARCC since it was set up in 1998. A trailblazer for women in global health, Leke has fought throughout her...
POINTS SAILLANTS ▪ Déclaration des épidémies de cVDPV2 par lettre N°0001847 du 18 août 2020 du Ministre de la Santé et des affaires sociales ▪ 1 cas de cVDPV2 chez 1 cas de PFA dans le DS...
Professor Rose Leke on polio eradication, gender and women in science. After the World Health Assembly passed a resolution to eradicate polio worldwide in 1988, the Global Certification Commission...
The Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on polio eradication is an independent body charged with advising and making recommendations to the ministry of health and Global Polio Eradication Initiative...
Support from national governments and global donors critical to the region’s success against wild polio and must continue to achieve a polio-free world GENEVA, 25 August 2020 – Today, the Africa...
In 1996, the great African leader Nelson Mandela launched the Kick Polio Out of Africa campaign with Rotary International’s support, setting out a vision for a polio-free Africa. At the time, wild...
A cVDPV1 outbreak has been detected in Yemen. WHO and UNICEF are supporting local health authorities to plan and launch an effective outbreak response to limit virus spread. Next week the African...