Source: Global Polio Eradication Initiative
Country: Afghanistan, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Iraq, Madagascar, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia, South Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Yemen
This week the emergency committee of the International Health Regulations (IHR) is meeting for the sixth time to assess whether the international spread of polio continues to constitute a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).
Despite the deteriorating security situation in Yemen, a humanitarian pause enabled 50,000 children to be reached with the oral polio vaccine during the final week of Ramadan. Read more