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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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Benjamin Niyibizi standing outside Rwanda's National Electoral Commission offices earlier this year after submitting his candidature for a parliamentary seat. Credit: Benjamin Niyibizi

Far from paralysed: Rwandan polio survivors stride towards a safer future

21 Aug 2024

4 min read

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Polio vaccination in Malawi, March24, 2022 Credit: WHO/AFRO

Keeping gender in mind to stop wild polio in southern Africa

18 Jun 2024

3 min read

Polio Gender equality

When the local nurse comes to vaccinate children in the village, his parents take Chandan, 9 months old, to get immunised. Credit: Gavi/2023/Benedikt V. Loebell

Celebrating a polio-free India, dreaming of a polio-free world

9 Apr 2024

5 min read

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Huma Ashraf, right of picture, lost her feet in a tragic accident. Credit: Global Polio Eradication Initiative

Huma Ashraf, an unbroken spirit

16 Feb 2024

7 min read

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A child receives the polio vaccine in Sempoa in the Eastern Region on 8 October 2020. Credit: ©UNICEF/ANNANKRA

Six things you need to know about the latest tool against polio

16 Jan 2024

5 min read

Polio Vaccine development

Muhammad Kamran during a vaccination campaign. Credit: Expanded Program on Immunization, Punjab.

Living proof: in Pakistan, a polio-disabled vaccinator inspires his community

7 Dec 2023

5 min read

Health worker heroes Polio

Female vaccinator from DistricT Health Office Team in Bannu giving EPI card after vaccinating a zero dose child. during RUR-1. Credit: Huma Khawar

“Reaching the unreached” in one of the last strongholds of poliovirus

24 Oct 2023

7 min read

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