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WHO and UNICEF welcome the decision by the Taliban leadership supporting the resumption of house-to-house polio vaccination acro...
The recommendation further advances nOPV2 as a critical new tool in the fight against circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus typ...
Virus isolated from Rivne province in north-west of country
Polio this week as of 20 October 2021 This week, the GPEI got the greenlight to resume house-to-house vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan which had been halted for over three years. Starting November 8, the campaigns will target over 3.3 millio...
Read MoreA map showing the latest number of WPV1 and cVDPV cases in each affected country
Read MorePolio remains endemic in two countries – Afghanistan and Pakistan. Until poliovirus transmission is interrupted in these countries, all countries remain at risk of importation of polio, especially vulnerable countries with weak public health and immunization services and travel or trade links to endemic countries.
Read MoreThe Global Polio Eradication Initiative is a public-private partnership led by national governments with six core partners - the World Health Organization (WHO), Rotary International, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. Its goal is to eradicate polio worldwide.
Read MoreThe Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) is financed by a wide range of public and private donors, who help meet the costs of the Initiative’s eradication activities. The requirements for 2019-2023 are projected to be approximately US$ 4.2 billion.
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