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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...

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...

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...

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...

The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) of the GPEI has announced the appointment of new members of a reconstituted polio Transition Independent Monitoring Board (TIMB). Read more… This month, world...

Continued funding is crucial to respond to COVID-19, end polio and tackle other vaccine-preventable diseases. This month, world leaders have joined together to make several important commitments to...

What is new in the guide On the 25th of March, the GPEI circulated the first update of the interim guide to help ensure continuity of the programme’s operations in the context of the COVID-19...

The GPEI has released an updated guide that synthesizes and references new evidence and recommendations to help ensure continuity of the programme’s operations in the context of the COVID-19...

Pledge of CA $ 190M to deliver polio vaccines to children worldwide. Due to widespread polio vaccination efforts over the past 30 years, more than 18 million people are walking today who would...