With New Polio Outbreak in East Africa, Global Rapid Response System Kicks...
Ed note. This post originally appeared in All Africa and is reprinted with permission. The author, Helen Rees, is chair of the World Health Organization’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on...
View ArticlePolio Has Come to Syria
The New York Times’ Anne Barnard paints a grim picture of life inside Syria that speaks to the massive inadequacy of humanitarian relief efforts. Some five million Syrians are now refugees in their own...
View ArticleHonoring Frontline Polio Workers
The United Nations Association held its annual Global Leadership Awards Dinner last night. The honorees included, Malala Yousavzai, former UN Foundation President Sen. Tim Wirth, Girls Rising,...
View ArticleThe Human Race Reached a Huge Milestone Today and You Probably Did Not Even...
The UN-backed effort to wipe polio off the face of the earth reached has reached a major milestone. Exactly three years ago today — January 13, 2011 — a young girl in West Bengal State, India was...
View ArticleMap of the Day: Attacks on Polio Workers in Pakistan
So far 2014 has been a good year for polio virus, and a bad one for humanity. After years of decline, polio is spreading to countries where it’s previously been eradicated. This includes Syria, where...
View ArticleWHO Declares Polio Emergency
Not long ago polio was on the retreat. India, which historically accounted for most polio infections worldwide was certified polio free. Rates of transmissions and infections were at an all time low...
View ArticleThe Needle and the Damage Done
The Obama administration says it is finally — mercifully — no longer permitting its intelligence agencies from using vaccine campaigns as a ruse to collect intelligence. The decision was made after...
View ArticleThe Good and Bad News in the Fight Against Polio
There’s good and bad news in the current global fight against polio. In May, the World Health Organization issued a travel advisory for regions of “polio exporters” Syria, Pakistan, and Cameroon....
View ArticlePakistani Polio Team Found Murdered
The team had gone missing earlier in the week. “Local militants had abducted the vaccination worker, two local tribal policemen and a driver in the Zhob district of Baluchistan province on Saturday....
View ArticleWant to Stop Polio? Vaccines are Crucial. But So Are Toilets.
(Along the Laos/Vietnam Border) — A polio outbreak has Lao health officials on high alert and determined to vaccinate thousands of children nationwide, as well as adults in high-risk areas. This comes...
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