The successful scale of the response shows encouraging results, with an average rise of 11,000 children a month immunized by transit teams in tent-to-tent campaigns.
Nigeria + 4 more
Nigeria + 4 more
The successful scale of the response shows encouraging results, with an average rise of 11,000 children a month immunized by transit teams in tent-to-tent campaigns.
Nigeria + 4 more
Thousands of health workers across the region have been mobilized and trained. In Borno alone, more than 1.7 million children have been vaccinated, yet many more continue to be un- or under-immunized.
Nigeria + 3 more
In the first instance, the emergencies team and polio team work together on a day-to-day basis as ‘one WHO’, citing collaboration as "the most effective way" to achieve polio-free Africa.
Nigeria + 4 more
The declaration urges that all countries of the Lake Chad Basin fully implement coordinated outbreak responses to quickly curtail this outbreak and prevent international spread.
Pakistan + 15 more
North Waziristan is the district with the largest number of children being paralyzed by poliovirus in the world. Immunization activities have been suspended by local leaders since June 2012
World + 6 more
New cases at lowest levels ever, but funding gap threatens progress Geneva, Switzerland 24 May 2012 – Despite the dramatic drop in polio cases in the last year, the threat of continued transmission due to funding and immunization gaps has driven the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI)to...