There were 28 cases of wild poliovirus 1 (WPVI) in 2018, compared to 113 as at mid-December last year, "with no significant success yet in reversing this trend."
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There were 28 cases of wild poliovirus 1 (WPVI) in 2018, compared to 113 as at mid-December last year, "with no significant success yet in reversing this trend."
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To support eradication efforts in countries where polio remains endemic, Rotary is allocating the majority of the funds it announced today to Afghanistan ($22.9M), Pakistan ($21.7M), and Nigeria ($16.1M).
A dramatic increase in violence in the first part of 2018 has forced at least 55,000 people, including 28,600 children to flee because of brutality and violence in their communities.
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More than half of the funds will support efforts to end polio in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where polio remains endemic. Further funding will support efforts to keep 10 vulnerable countries polio-free
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The Global Polio Eradication Initiative partners and field workers must work hard to understand how best to communicate the risk of polio outbreaks to different communities.
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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.
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More than 190,000 polio vaccinators in 13 countries across west and central Africa will immunize more than 116 million children, to tackle the last remaining stronghold of polio on the continent.
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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.
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The Global Overview collates information from a range of sources and displays it in a manner that allows for quick comparison of different humanitarian crises.
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There have been 2,936 new cases of cholera and 83 deaths in Haiti in one week, already more than half the cases reported during September.
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Snapshot 08 – 15 October In Syria, heavy fighting is ongoing in Rural Damascus, Dar’a, Aleppo, Idleb and Homs, with government forces making gains in Rural Damascus while the opposition has won ground in Dar’a. Despite the call of al-Qaeda’s leader for opposition fighters to unite,...
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As of 8 October, almost 3 million people living across 30 of Thailand’s 77 provinces were affected by floods caused by heavier than usual monsoon rains.