Prevention Efforts Against Polio Intensify

Prevention Efforts Intensify Against the Polio Virus in 2024

Despite significant geo-political and environmental challenges in the two remaining endemic countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan, the polio programme continues to reach greater numbers of children with polio vaccines

In both countries, efforts are increasingly focused on reaching and vaccinating the last remaining ‘zero dose’ children – children who have received no vaccines of any kind

Thanks to strong political commitment, improved collaboration with the national immunisation programs, new efforts like Pakistan’s Nomad Vaccination Initiative and focused vaccination activities at border crossings, the number of cases of Polio continues to decline

Nearly 1 billion doses of comparably safe, effective and  genetically stable oral polio vaccine have been administered across 35 countries, protecting millions of children from illness and paralysis

Photos: Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI)

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