Multimedia
21/12/2017
Professor David Salisbury, chair of the Global Commission for the Certification of the Eradication of Poliomyelitis, talks us through the process of certifying the world as polio-free, and the importance of containing the virus after eradication.
23/10/2017
One of an animated series on the global drive to eradicate polio.
23/10/2017
One of an animated series on the global drive to eradicate polio.
23/10/2017
One of an animated series on the global drive to eradicate polio.
11/10/2017
A short chat with Dr Naveed Sadozai, recently retired senior epidemiologist of the GPEI programme, about his experiences in the field over the course of his long career.
22/09/2017
Volunteer community health workers responding to the outbreak of cholera are one of the most powerful means to help curb the spread of disease.
31/08/2017
In July and August, health workers and volunteers vaccinated hundreds of thousands of children in targeted campaigns in Syria to protect them from an outbreak of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus
25/08/2017
On his motorbike, Mullah Rashid criss-crosses Kandahar, talking to communities about the importance of vaccination
25/08/2017
Adding creativity and colour to polio eradication efforts in Afghanistan.
27/06/2017
A short chat with Dr Ousmane Diop, Coordinator of the Global Polio Laboratory Network, on innovative ways to track and find polioviruses through disease surveillance.
09/06/2017
Michel Zaffran, Director of Polio at WHO, talks to us about vaccine-derived polioviruses (VDPV) and how WHO is working to stop the recent outbreak in Syria.
01/05/2017
Anytime a child is paralyzed by polio in any country, the World Health Organization moves fast to stop the outbreak.
26/04/2017
The polio eradication programme is reaching the most hard to access children and families on the move with vaccines in Pakistan.
25/04/2017
From the most remote communities to the laboratory, the World Health Organization makes sure that the pieces of the polio surveillance system work together; so that if the virus is circulating anywhere in the world it will be found – and stopped.
