Polio this week as of 01 April 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...
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Call to action to support COVID-19 response: Polio Oversight Board statement on COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic response requires worldwide solidarity and an urgent global effort. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) stands ready to respond. GPEI’s response to COVID-19 is driven...
Meet the courageous women ending polio in Somalia
Health workers are the beating heart of every health system and the majority - seventy percent worldwide - are women. Meet Noora, Zainab and Feriha, who deliver polio vaccine to communities against...
Polio this week as of 25 March 2020
Polio this week as of 18 March 2020
GPEI statement on COVID-19
A moral imperative to stand together The COVID -19 pandemic response requires worldwide solidarity and an urgent global effort. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), with thousands of polio...
"The first call": Polio eradication staff support COVID-19 response
Using the vast infrastructure developed to identify the poliovirus and deliver vaccination campaigns, the polio eradication programme is pitching in to protect the vulnerable from COVID-19,...
Polio this week as of 11 March 2020
Summary of new viruses this week (AFP cases and environmental samples): -Afghanistan: one WPV1 positive environmental sample - Pakistan: four WPV1 cases and 13 WPV1 positive environmental samples -...
Polio this week as of 04 March 2020
Resilient women drive polio eradication in Pakistan
To end polio we must overcome gender barriers and support equality everywhere. Thousands of women work in the Pakistan polio eradication programme as scientists of many specialties, managers, data...
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