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On a street in Nigeria, two health workers provide an oral polio vaccine to a child.

Vaccinating the world against a virus: What it will take

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We are living through an unprecedented moment in time. With COVID-19 vaccine procurement and delivery underway, we are in the midst of a global health effort unlike what many of us have seen. But in some ways, we have been here before – with polio. In the early part of the twentieth century, few diseases affected children and… Read more →←
n Liberia, UNICEF-supported social mobilizers from the group A-LIFE, learn to record survey data using their mobile phones.

How to hunt a virus: 5 ways polio is helping fight Ebola

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I’m often asked how the largest-ever public health movement – to end polio – has boosted the world’s ability to fight other deadly infectious diseases. When I flew into Sierra Leone on 22 October to help tackle Ebola, I got to see for myself. Polio and Ebola are very different viruses that call for different responses, yet both… Read more →←
A child receives a dose of oral polio vaccine in Pakistan.

Polio eradication in Pakistan gets the selfie treatment

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Towards the end of 2013 and the beginning of 2014, the Pakistani media repeatedly warned that if the country does not curtail the spread of the polio virus, it would be highly likely that travelers will have to obtain a polio vaccination certificate before traveling abroad. It was during this time that India, declaring itself polio free… Read more →←

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