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Boy in Emerson respirator (iron lung) in Herman Keifer Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, due to polio. Viewing photographer (Joe Clark) in machine's mirror. Ca. 1955. Credit: Otis Historical Archives National Museum of Health and Medicine

A 'new medical age': 70 years of polio vaccination

11 Apr 2025

11 min read

Polio Innovation

A mother and her child amidst health workers during a vaccination session in Mozambique. Credit: Mozambique Health Ministry.

'Radio Polio': how free radio in Mozambique is helping keep kids safe

7 Feb 2025

7 min read

Qudratullah Razwan/EPA

Poliovirus found in wastewater in Spain, Germany and Poland – what you need to know

13 Dec 2024

5 min read

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A girl receives drops of an orally administered vaccine. Credit: IFRC/2024

Polio is haunting Gaza as vaccination campaign resumes

1 Nov 2024

5 min read

Polio Spotlight on polio Conflict & humanitarian

A polio worker marking a child’s finger during the first polio campaign after the floods. © WHO/Pakistan

Pakistan’s fight to end polio amid the climate crisis

24 Oct 2024

3 min read

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Aisha Salisu Adam administering the vaccine. Credit: Babatunde Rolland

Kano communities turn out in force to mount fresh attack against polio

23 Oct 2024

6 min read

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Two-year-old Roqia and her grandfather look out over the steep-sided Kamdesh valley in Afghanistan. When she contracted polio in February, Roqia’s grandfather carried her down the mountain for treatment. © UNICEF

The legacy of isolation is a double-edged sword for children in Nuristan, Eastern Afghanistan

23 Oct 2024

4 min read

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Children suffering of polio. Credit: Polio Eradication Initiative

Anne Wafula Strike: Polio anywhere is a threat everywhere

22 Oct 2024

4 min read

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Senator Harold Kipchumba, a polio survivor, gives the polio vaccine to a child. Credit: UNICEF ESARO 2013

“Just two drops: This is what I didn’t have”: veteran polio activist Harold Kipchumba

22 Oct 2024

7 min read

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A polio worker going for field work during door-to-door national polio campaign in UC Jalala in Texila, Pakistan. Gavi/Pakistan/Asad Zaidi

Polio: a VaccinesWork briefing

21 Oct 2024

4 min read

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Credit: Qudratullah Razwan/EPA

The Taliban suspends polio vaccine campaign in Afghanistan – here's the likely impact

25 Sep 2024

4 min read

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District khateeb for Peshawar, Maulana Tayyab Qureshi administering polio drops to children. Religious scholars in Pakistan are extending support to immunisation campaigns with the objective of promoting vaccine acceptance. (Photo by Adeel Saeed).

In northwestern Pakistan, religious leaders convert the vaccine-hesitant

25 Sep 2024

6 min read

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