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The GPEI is deeply saddened by the reports of attacks on health workers in Afghanistan. We wish to extend our deepest condolences to the families, relatives and colleagues of the victims. These...

Today, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) launched the Polio Eradication Strategy 2022-2026: Delivering on a Promise at a virtual event, to overcome the remaining challenges to ending...

Support critical ahead of launch of new strategic plan The health ministers of the G7 countries reaffirmed their commitment to polio eradication, at their annual meeting held in Oxford, UK and...

COUNTRIES REAFFIRM COMMITMENT TO ENDING POLIO AT LAUNCH OF NEW ERADICATION STRATEGY Renewed donor support critical to ending polio after recent rise in cases and COVID-19 setbacks GENEVA, 10 June...

You are invited to the virtual launch of the Polio Eradication Strategy 2022-2026, at an online event on Thursday 10 June 2021 (at 2pm, Central European Summer Time). More information, including...

New strategy sets out roadmap for polio-free world amid COVID-19 Meeting virtually this week at the 74th World Health Assembly (WHA), global health leaders and ministers of health noted the new...

The twenty-eighth meeting of the Emergency Committee under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) on theinternational spread of poliovirus was convened by the WHO Director-General on 4 May...

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Summary of new WPV and cVDPV viruses this week (AFP cases and ES positives): Afghanistan: five cVDPV2 cases Pakistan: one cVDPV2 case China: one cVDPV3 positive environmental sample Liberia: two...

The GPEI has released the 2021 National Emergency Action Plan (NEAP) for Afghanistan which contains the current epidemiology and situational overview and progress on the 2020 NEAP among other...