During the 69th World Health Assembly in Geneva global leaders have reaffirmed commitment to ending polio once and for all Last week, global political commitment to eradicating polio was affirmed at the World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva. During the polio agenda item, member states discussed progress made in the last year and the remaining...

3 May 2016 – A second 4-day workshop to build country capacity to respond to any possible polio outbreak was organized by the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean from 24 to 27 April 2016 in Cairo, Egypt. Representatives from ministries of health of the 10 countries of the Region which did not take part in the first workshop...

This World Immunization Week, the global goal of polio eradication is closer than ever, although more needs to be done to deliver a world free from the disease.   To deliver a polio-free world, every child in the remaining polio reservoirs – Pakistan and Afghanistan – must be vaccinated. The purple ink dot on this babies’ finger shows that they have...

1 March 2016 – The eighth meeting of the Emergency Committee under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) regarding the international spread of poliovirus was convened via teleconference by the Director-General on 12 February 2016. As with the seventh meeting, the Emergency Committee reviewed the data on circulating wild poliovirus as...

Dr Naeema Al Gasseer, WHO Representative to Sudan, giving a dose of vitamin A to a child during the polio campaign in Sudan from 2 to 4 November 20158 November 2015 – More than 4 million children under the age of 5 have been targeted with oral polio vaccine during a 3-day national immunization day campaign in Sudan. The campaign, which was...

25 October, 2015 | Beirut – Despite continuing conflict, declining immunization rates in conflict-affected areas and mass population displacement, no new polio cases have been reported in the Middle East for over 18 months, and experts believe the extensive multi-country outbreak response has been effective in stopping the outbreak. Read the full...

15 August 2015 -- A national polio, measles and rubella campaign was launched today in the Sana’a governorate of Yemen. The 5-day campaign supported by WHO, UNICEF and the Vaccine Alliance (GAVI) aims to vaccinate 5 657 620 children under the age of 5 against polio and around 1.8 million children aged from 6 months to 15 years against measles and...

Muslim scholars urged to champion eradication push Cairo, 7 May 2015 – The Islamic Advisory Group for Polio Eradication (IAG) has adopted a new action plan that seeks to help eradicate polio in the few remaining affected Muslim nations and appealed to Islamic scholars and influencers to make as significant a contribution as possible to this...

16 January 2015 – January 21 will mark a year since the last case of polio was reported in Syria. This significant milestone is thanks to a tremendous effort by all those involved in outbreak response since the first case was confirmed in October 2013. Before this outbreak, Syria had not seen an endemic case of wild poliovirus since 1999. Read more

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