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We're in the last mile in the fight to eradicate polio, but progress is fragile. As long as the disease is a threat anywhere, it remains a threat everywhere. A look at how UNICEF and partners are working to reach every child with lifesaving polio vaccines.In Kwango Province, Democratic ...

With the wild poliovirus on the verge of eradication, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) offers a blueprint for addressing other infectious disease outbreaks and public health crises.A girl receives the polio vaccine in Rawalpindi, Pakistan during a national vaccination campaign.© UNICEF/UN0765530/ Polio’s defeat lies within reach. Today, wild ...

UNICEF-supported Community Health Workers play a key role as Pakistan strives for a polio-free future for every child. Widowed at 28 in Pakistan, Reshma (name changed to protect her privacy) became a UNICEF-supported Community Health Worker, going door to door to vaccinate children in her community from polio, to ...

With so much conflict, division and crisis happening in the world today, it is easy to despair and think that the individual interventions that add up to progress in the fight against poverty and equality don’t matter. They do. Amidst the doom and gloom narratives that dominate our daily ...

A conversation with Mike McGovern of Rotary International, a longtime UNICEF partner and leader in global polio eradication efforts. "There’s real hope for getting this done."In Rawalpindi, Pakistan, a brother and sister hold up their fingers which have been inked to show they have received the polio vaccine.© UNICEF/UN0353289/Bukhari ...

UNICEF-supported female vaccination teams go where men cannot in Afghanistan to protect every child against polio.Two-year-old Abbas receives his oral polio vaccine from Morvarid, a UNICEF-supported vaccinator, during a house-to-house immunization campaign in Afghanistan's Herat Province.© UNICEF/UN0648273/BIDEL More than three decades after UNICEF, Rotary International and other key partners ...

Despite recent setbacks, UNICEF and partners are determined to finish the job of eradicating polio.A father holds his 2-year-old son while he receives his polio vaccine in Masulama Village, Karonga District, northern Malawi. © UNICEF/UN0700326/ Polio, a highly contagious and sometimes deadly virus that can cause paralysis, was nearly ...

Soni Faisal knows only too well how polio can forever alter a child's future. She has made it her mission to protect Pakistan's children from this highly contagious, crippling disease. Children in Lahore, Pakistan, welcome a UNICEF-supported polio vaccination team with big smiles on Jan. 11, 2021. © UNICEF/UN0399457/Bukhar ...

Rotary International President Shekhar Mehta reflects on the importance of empowering girls. Five-year-old Rokiatou learns mathematics in Côte d’Ivoire in 2022. During the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of schoolchildren across the globe were cut off from in-person learning. Some are still affected by prolonged school closures. © UNICEF/UN0613239/Dejongh As UNICEF ...

In Kandahar, Afghanistan, a UNICEF-supported polio vaccinator marks a girl's finger with ink to indicate she has received the vaccine. © UNICEF/Frank Dejongh After the wild poliovirus was officially eliminated in Africa in August, Afghanistan and Pakistan became the only countries in the world where polio remains endemic. A highly infectious, ...