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Global polio eradication initiative

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Press release
10 November 2020

UNICEF and WHO call for emergency action to avert major measles and polio epidemics

GENEVA/ NEW YORK, 6 November 2020 – UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) today issued an urgent call to action to avert major measles and polio epidemics as COVID-19 continues to disrupt immunization services worldwide, leaving millions of vulnerable children at heightened risk of preventable childhood d...
Photo essay
16 December 2019

Going the extra mile to fight polio

A young boy we met during a random inspection of our immunization campaign in Moyu county, Hotan, Xinjiang Autonomous Region. He was vaccinated. Since the first new polio case in China was confirmed in August 26 last year, hundreds and thousands of doctors and medical workers have been mobilized and three rounds o...
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20 March 2019

Key Messages of Polio

Polio virus is one of the most dreaded childhood diseases of the 20th century; wild polio virus was identified as being "imported" into China from Pakistan in August of this year. Working closely with the Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization and other partners, UNICEF China has quickly mobilised more ...
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