At the United Nations General Assembly GPEI Polio Event and at the Global Citizen NOW panel discussions that took place on 23 ...

Polio survivor and Rotary advocate Ramesh Ferris has a powerful message: no child should have to live with the lifelong ...

From the Arctic Ocean to Africa, the Eastern Mediterranean and Europe, communities marked World Polio Day 2026 with ...

The Polio Advanced Course in Vaccinology (PVAC) brings together health professionals and experts from different countries to deepen their understanding of polio vaccines, surveillance, outbreak ...

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The COVID -19 pandemic response requires worldwide solidarity. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) has a public health imperative to ensure that its resources are used to support countries ...

A nation-wide immunization campaign helped in eradicating polio in India. WHO/2011 Eradicating polio in India was a feat of dedication, commitment and simply doubling down on immunization activities.

Three children smile behind a vaccine carrier during a polio campaign in Sudan’s Kassala state in 2024. Sustaining strong population immunity against polio is a ...

Eleven months after Abdel-Rahman Abu El-Jedian was born into the chaos of the Israel-Hamas war, he became paralysed by polio, marking the first case in Gaza in 25 years. Today, children in Gaza are ...

The discovery in the summer of 2022 that poliovirus had been found in sewers in London as well as in an unvaccinated community in New York startled many who had long forgotten about polio. The ...