Polio Transition Programme
Polio transition is an opportunity to sustain the infrastructure set up to eradicate polio to strengthen health systems, bolster global health security and make progress towards broader health goals.
The Global Vision is the “umbrella” for a new Strategic Framework for polio transition, which updates the Strategic Action Plan on Polio Transition (2018-2023)....
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Reports
27 April 2022
Polio transition planning and polio post-certification: Report by the Director-General
The Executive Board at its 150th session noted an earlier version of this report.1 The present report provides an update on the implementation of...
17 January 2022
5th Report of the Polio Transition Independent Monitoring Board
The TIMB met between 3 and 5 November 2021.This report is based largely on the presentationsand discussions at that meeting. The meeting wasopened by WHO’s...
Publications
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31 August 2022
Planning and budgeting tool for vaccine-preventable disease surveillance in priority countries for polio...
The Planning and Budgeting Tool for Vaccine-Preventable Disease Surveillance in Priority Countries for Polio Transition aims to provide...
7 June 2022
Role of the polio network in COVID-19 vaccine delivery and essential immunization, Lessons learned for...
Over the last two years, the COVID-19 pandemic has dominated the public health agenda. The new virus revealed major gaps in health systems at the national...
Over the last decade, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) made steady progress on the path to eradication. Wild poliovirus types 2 and 3 (WPV2...
30 October 2020
Contributions of the polio network to the COVID-19 response: turning the challenge into an opportunity...
Personnel and infrastructure established through the polio eradication programme are once again proving their value during the COVID-19 pandemic as highly...