News Stories
26/10/2010
More than 72 million children to be immunized across 15 countries to tackle remaining risks
Dakar/Brazzaville, 26 October – This week, Africa seizes an unprecedented chance to drive out polio when 15 countries across the continent launch a syn...
25/10/2010
Immunogenicity of bivalent types 1 and 3 oral poliovirus vaccine: a randomised, double-blind, controlled trial
22/10/2010
Ministers of Health from Africa, the Eastern Mediterranean, Europe and South-East Asia have come together at Regional Committee meetings of the World Health Organization (WHO) to discuss urgent measures to interrupt the remaining chains of polio transmissi...
12/10/2010
Leadership takes to the streets to ensure children are vaccinated
11/10/2010
To help inform the new Independent Monitoring Board
Geneva, Switzerland - The World Health Organization (WHO) has published its first quarterly 'data compilation' against the global milestones of the new Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI...
01/10/2010
Improved vaccination coverage critical to halt Africa's only expanding polio outbreak
Today, the Government of Angola launches vaccination campaigns aimed at delivering polio vaccine to all children under five years of age over the next three days. Th...
22/09/2010
Text: By Chinara Asanova and Giovanni Zambello
Three-year-old Uylus Jumabekova gently opened her mouth to let the nurse drop in some "vitamins" – it was her grandmother's explanation to help her take her vaccine against polio.
She swallowed the not very...
17/09/2010
Health system could take years to recover following flood damage "beyond imagination" - polio strategies adapted to protect polio-free areas of the country
Polio eradication staff and resources have been mobilized en masse to support the response to t...
15/09/2010
Reaching the MDGs with lessons learned from global polio eradication
The UN General Assembly is convening a high-level plenary meeting from 20 to 22 September (the Millenium Development Goals Summit), with the primary objective of accelerating progress to...
08/09/2010
Increased risk of international spread
Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) are experiencing outbreaks of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1).
In Angola, the outbreak which began in April 2007, has this year spread to re-infect previously p...
08/09/2010
"Polio eradication one of my top priorities as CEO."
02/09/2010
1.5 million children vaccinated
September 2010 / Kabul, Afghanistan - In a region that has been polio-free for nearly a decade, a new polio case has been detected in the Imam Sahib district of the north-eastern Afghan province of Kunduz bordering Tajikist...
31/08/2010
Attack a stark reminder of the dangers faced by public health workers.
On the morning of 22 August 2010, Mr Osman Hussein Ibrahim, District Polio Officer in Mogadishu, Somalia, was shot and killed by a stray bullet while on his way to supervise polio...
24/08/2010
Bono - lead singer of the rock band U2 - met today with President Dmitri Medvedev of the Russian Federation. Among other development and public health topics, both men discussed the importance of stopping polio, which has this year resurged in central Asia...
16/08/2010
On 8 August 2010, the President of Chad, Idriss Deby Itno, received the prestigious Rotary 'Polio Eradication Champion' award.
The award was given in recognition of the President's personal engagement in Chad's polio eradication efforts. Officially presen...
