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24-30 April marks World Immunization Week, an opportunity to highlight vaccines as one of humanity’s greatest achievements, saving millions of lives every year. This year, World Immunization Week will celebrate 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) – a collaborative initiative aimed at ensuring universal access to life-saving vaccines for everyone, everywhere. EPI served as an inspiration for Rotary International to launch PolioPlus in 1985, which led to the founding of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative three years later. The GPEI continues to work with its partners around the world to help strengthen immunization systems everywhere. To mark EPI’s 50th anniversary, WHO, UNICEF, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are collectively launching ‘Humanly Possible’, a global campaign to mark the profound achievements of EPI, and to call on leaders to prioritize investments in immunization. A dedicated campaign website, with key data, messages and calls to action went live on 24 April.
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As the global community commemorates World Immunization Week, Dr Hamid Jafari, Director, Polio Eradication, WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region takes the opportunity to share what humanity can achieve when we come together and take action for our collective health. Read more…
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Co-hosted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Gavi, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, PATH, and the United Nations Foundation, an event titled **Advancing Sustainable Development through Strategic Health Investments **was held in Washington, DC last week, on the sidelines of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund Spring meetings. The session provided an important opportunity to discuss linkages between strategic investments in childhood immunization and polio eradication efforts, exploring how through these continued investments we can build a more resilient and prosperous world for generations to come.
Summary of new poliovirus this week
- Afghanistan: 10 WPV1-positive environmental samples
- Pakistan: two WPV1-positive environmental samples
- Angola: one cVDPV2-positive environmental sample
- Nigeria: two cVDPV2 cases
- Somalia: one cVDPV2 case
- South Sudan: three cVDPV2 cases
- Yemen: one cVDPV2 case and eight positive environmental samples
- Zimbabwe: one cVDPV2-positive environmental sample