No images? Click hereDetection of Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus Type 2 in Morobe, Papua New Guinea - April 2025On 4 April 2025, the Global Polio Specialized Laboratory in Japan confirmed the detection of poliovirus in a sewage sample collected on 11 March 2025, from Bowerbird Road, China Town, Lae, Morobe province i...
Saudi Arabia confirms US$ 500 million commitment to global polio eradication effortThe Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has pledged US$ 500 million to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) during the fourth Riyadh International Humanitarian Forum.Read more in the latest issue of the bulletinRead more...
Global Polio Surveillance Action Plan, 2025–2026In January 2025, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) launched the Global Polio Surveillance Action Plan (GPSAP) 2025–2026.Read more in the latest issue of the bulletinRead more in the latest issue of thebulletinArchive of previous issues can...
No images? Click hereDetection of vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 in AustraliaOn 19th December 2024, the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory (VIDRL) in Australia reported the detection of vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (VDPV2) through environmental surveillance.Read more in the latest i...
No images? Click here30th Meeting of the Regional Commission for the Certification of Polio Eradication in the Western Pacific RegionThe 30th meeting of the Regional Commission for Certification (RCC) of Poliomyelitis Eradication in the Western Pacific was held from 12 to 14 November 2024 in Vientiane, Lao People’s Dem...
Western Pacific Region launches new system to improve integrated VPD surveillance data reportingIn October 2024, Western Pacific Region (WPR) launched the Integrated Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (VPD) Surveillance System (IVSS). This innovative system integrates country-level epidemiological and laboratory data reporting...
23rd Annual Report from the Independent Monitoring BoardThe 23rd report by the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) which provides independent assessment of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) has been published.Read more in the latest issue of the bulletinRead more in the latest issue of thebulle...
Tragic passing of WHO Polio EradicationProgramme Director, Aidan O’LearyThe Director for WHO Polio Eradication Program, Mr Aidan O’Leary passed away on the evening of Tuesday 6 August, while he was on holiday with his family.Read more in the latest issue of the bulletinRead more in the latest issue ...
Team End Polio: One Team, One DreamOn July 30, 2024, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) launched the inspiring “Team End Polio” campaign.Read more in the latest issue of the bulletinRead more in the latest issue of the bulletinArchive of previous issues can be accessed here....
No images? Click hereResumption of Environmental Surveillancefor Poliovirus in Papua New GuineaIn 2018, environmental surveillance sites were established in the cities of Port Moresby and Lae during a polio outbreak caused by cVDPV1.Read more in the latest issue of the bulletinRead more ...
!-- !-No images? Click here50 Years of Impact: how polio eradication and EPI demonstrate what is humanly possibleThe world immunization week was commemorated at the end of April 2024, reminding us of what humanity can achieve when efforts are made for collective health.Read more in the latest issue of the bulletin!-- ...
South-East Asia Region celebrates a decade of wild polio-free certificationOn 27 March 2014, India was officially certified wild polio-free. As the last country battling the virus in the WHO South-East Asia Region (SEAR), it paved the way for the entire Region to be certified wild polio-free.Read more in the...
Ongoing circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) outbreak in IndonesiaIndonesia reported outbreak of cVDPV2 in October 2022 that continues to spread further in the country. The outbreak was first detected in Aceh province, and more recently the virus has spread to Central and East Java provinces. &nbs...
Health leaders call for focused efforts in endemic and most consequential geographiesGlobal health leaders and Ministers of Health at the 154th session of the WHO Executive Board in January 2024 reaffirmed their commitment to eradicate polio once and for all and use the polio investments to build strong, equitable ...
nOPV2 gets prequalified by WHOIn late December 2023, the World Health Organization issued its first-ever prequalification approval for a vaccine being used under its Emergency Use Listing (EUL) regulatory pathway – novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2). Since rollout of the vaccine in March 2021, the Global Polio Eradi...
GPEI – a brief review of 2023 and full focus on 2024The Global Polio Eradication Initiative has two goals laid out in its current strategy: to interrupt all remaining transmission of endemic wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) and to stop all outbreaks of variant poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2). 2023 was a critical year for p...
Global Polio Partners, Paris Saint-Germain Endowment Fund, and the French Gaming Community Unite to #ENDPOLIOOn 5th December the French gaming community made a call for collective action to defeat a common adversary – only it was not an online gaming threat, but poliovirus.Read more in the latest issue of th...
29th meeting of the Regional Certification Commission on Polio Eradication in Western Pacific RegionThe 29th meeting of the Regional Commission for Certification (RCC) of Poliomyelitis Eradication in Western Pacific convened on 28-30 November 2023 in Manila, PhilippinesRead more in the latest issue of the bu...
Twenty-fourth meeting of the Global Commission for the Certification of the Eradication of Poliomyelitis (GCC)On 22-23 November 2023, the Global Commission for Certification of Poliomyelitis Eradication (GCC) met in Geneva, Switzerland.Read more in the latest issue of the bulletinRead more in the lat...
Fighting polio vaccine misinformationWhile the end of polio is within reach, immunization efforts can easily be derailed by the rapid spread of vaccine misinformation. A few years ago, fake videos of children falling sick after receiving polio vaccination spread like wildfire on social media in Pakistan causing mas...