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Polio this week as of 5 June 2019
This week the world’s largest conference on gender equality and the health, rights, and wellbeing of girls and women is happening in Vancouver, Canada. Women are truly delivering a polio-free world...
Handle with care - WHO supports DRC in managing live type 2 polio vaccine in the field
‘Every single vaccine vial matters’ was the message ringing in participants’ ears following meetings between polio eradication counterparts across the Democratic Republic of Congo, late last year...
Polio this week as of 29 May 2019
Polio this week as of 29 May 2019
“Our challenge is not feasibility, but determination”: Health leaders at 72nd World Health Assembly welcome new Polio Endgame Strategy 2019-23: acknowledge a lot accomplished, a lot more to do to finish global polio eradication
Polio eradication was in high-level spotlight this week in the top echelons of global leadership as World Health Organization (WHO)Member States, donors, partners, civil society organizations, health...
Polio this week as of 22 May 2019
Polio this week as of 15 May 2019
On 9 May 2019, the World Health Organization received notification of the detection of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) from an environmental sample, collected on 20 April, in Seestan and Balochistan...
Iran: Wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) detected in environmental sample
On 9 May 2019, WHO received notification through the Global Polio Laboratory Network (GPLN) of the detection of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) from an environmental sample in Iran, Seestan-Baluchistan...
In Indonesia, no mountain is too high, no valley too low: Papua and West Papua provinces rise to challenges of stopping polio
The sun often beats down on the humid forest corridors of Papua and West Papua—the easternmost provinces of Indonesia where human and infrastructure development lag far behind the rest of the...
Polio this week as of 8 May 2019
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- Afghanistan
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- GPEI
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With recent introduction to the immunization coverage activities in Zimbabwe and Mongolia, at least 1 dose of Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV) is now available worldwide in 126 countries. IPV consists...
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