27 September 2006

Advisory Committee for Polio Eradication 2006
 

The independent technical oversight body for global polio eradication will meet on 11-12 October 2006 to review global progress in the past year and recommend steps to end poliovirus transmission rapidly in the remaining four endemic areas and to protect the rest of the world. A press briefing will be held on 12 October. More
 

21 September 2006

India calls for polio meeting with affected states
 

India's Minister of Health, Anbumani Ramadoss, has called a meeting today of health ministers from states with cases of polio this year. Only two states in India still have native poliovirus transmission: Uttar Pradesh (269 cases this year to date) and Bihar (17 cases). Intense poliovirus transmission in the western corner of Uttar Pradesh, due to a failure to reach all children with polio vaccine, has sparked an outbreak that has caused cases in several polio-free states of the country, including Uttaranchal, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Haryana. All the affected states are expected to participate in the meeting to discuss novel ways of reaching all children with vaccine to end the outbreak, protect the rest of India and ultimately stop transmission of polio.
 

07 September 2006

Horn of Africa countries coordinate polio campaigns to close down epidemic
 

Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya will simultaneously vaccinate millions of children under five years of age from 9-12 September in the largest ever synchronized vaccination campaigns in the Horn of Africa.