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Official Twitter account for the World Health Organization's @WHO Polio Eradication Programme.
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https://polioeradication.org 31-01-2011 10:51:26
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Bravo to Djibouti’s health workers for braving the heat to vaccinate around 155k children aged under five years against polio last week- especially critical as ongoing variant poliovirus outbreaks in the Horn of Africa risk spreading beyond borders. WHO Djibouti








We're on the threshold of ending polio forever, but aid cuts threaten to unravel decades of progress. 20 million kids are walking today because of global vaccination efforts — we can't abandon them now. Read UK Sarah Champion's urgent call: tinyurl.com/ycbzjj4n #EndPolio

Introducing PCV, measles, & polio vaccines into routine immunization for the first time in history is a major milestone for child health in Somalia. Ministry of Health- Somalia, WHO Somalia UNICEF Somalia







"..short-term reductions in critical health programmes lead to long-term economic losses from increased disease burden, reduced productivity, increased treatment costs, and the broader economic toll of uncontrolled outbreaks." -- Open letter in The Lancet in support of World Health Organization (WHO)