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05/12/2018
Dr Mohammad Al Safadi, Technical Officer for Polio Outbreak Preparedness and Response, WHO HQ, talks to us about the tactics and strategies used to successfully stop an outbreak in Syria in 2017/18.
03/12/2018
After an 18-month long intensive vaccination campaign in the face of a poliovirus outbreak in Syria, the outbreak has been successfully stopped.
30/11/2018
Update on polio eradication efforts in Afghanistan for November 2018
27/11/2018
Update on polio eradication efforts in Pakistan for October 2018
27/11/2018
In the Horn of Africa, health workers are using application-based technology to respond to poliovirus outbreaks with greater speed and accuracy.
23/11/2018
Afghanistan aims to reach the most vulnerable in Southern and Eastern provinces.
21/11/2018
Dr Zubair Wadood, senior polio epidemiologist and technical expert at WHO, speaks to us about the remaining operational challenges to reaching every last child with polio vaccine.
05/11/2018
Papua New Guinea’s first polio case in decades is a champion for eradication
02/11/2018
Update on polio eradication efforts in Pakistan for September 2018
31/10/2018
Update on polio eradication efforts in Afghanistan for October 2018
30/10/2018
We speak to Dr Arlene King, Chair of the RCC for the Americas, and GCC Containment Working Group, about the vital importance of safe and secure containment of polioviruses and the risk and responsibility that come with retaining the pathogen.
29/10/2018
Religious clerics promote routine immunization and other health services by delivering messages to husbands, fathers and sons at mosques.
25/10/2018
New collection of 30+ multimedia stories from Afghanistan, Pakistan and India now available on GPEI website
