Statement of the thirty-seventh Polio IHR Emergency Committee for Polio

The thirty-seventh meeting of the Emergency Committee under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) on the international spread of poliovirus was convened by the WHO Director-General on 12 December 2023 with Committee members and advisers meeting face to face, and via video conference with affected countries, supported by the WHO Secretariat. The Emergency Committee reviewed the data on wild poliovirus (WPV1) and circulating vaccine derived polioviruses (cVDPV) in the context of the global target of eradication of WPV and cessation of outbreaks of cVDPV2. Technical updates were received about the situation in the following countries: Afghanistan, Egypt, Guinea, Mauritania, Nigeria, Pakistan and Zimbabwe.