Polio this week as of 1 July 2020
WHO is looking to fill the Director position of its polio eradication department. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to contribute to a major global public health achievement: polio...
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Polio this week as of 24 June 2020
Dr Fiona Braka, Immunization Team Lead for WHO Nigeria, speaks about fighting polio outbreaks and toppling gender barriers. Summary of new WPV and cVDPV viruses this week (AFP cases and environmental...
Polio this week as of 16 June 2020
Summary of new WPV and cVDPV viruses this week (AFP cases and environmental samples): Afghanistan: four WPV1 cases, two WPV1 and threecVDPV2positive environmental samples Pakistan:one WPV1 case, 18...
Polio this week as of 09 June 2020
GPEI welcomes the strong commitment of partners at Global Vaccine Summit
US$ 8.8 billion pledged to fund immunization through Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. On 4 June 2020, the UK Government hosted Gavi’s third donor pledging conference, the Global Vaccine Summit, to...
Polio this week as of 02 June 2020
After a vaccine-derived poliovirus outbreak was detected in the Philippines in 2019, health workers have been working to close a polio immunity gap present amongst some of the nation’s children...
Polio this week as of 26 May 2020
See country sections below for more details. NA: Onset of paralysis in most recent case is prior to 2017. Figures exclude non-AFP sources. In 2018, cVDPV includes all three serotypes 1, 2 and 3. For...
Stronger role of women at all levels crucial to end polio for good
Melissa Corkum, Polio Outbreak Response Senior Manager for UNICEF, has dedicated a large part of her professional life to ending polio. In 2003, Melissa Corkum received a call that would change her...
Somalia’s polio teams help combat COVID-19
Personnel from the country’s long-running polio programme have been trained to detect COVID-19 cases. “The road to the mountain village was rough. It’s only 50 kilometres, but it took more than 3...
Polio eradication in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic - Updated urgent country and regional recommendations (21 May 2020)
COVID-19 continues to have an unprecedented impact on daily life, including access to and demand for essential health services. On March 24, the Polio Oversight Board (POB) of GPEI made...
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