Headlines: Gender champions lead the way in polio eradication Senator Ayesha Raza Farooq, Prime Minister’s Focal Person for Polio Eradication in Pakistan, and Baroness Jenny Chapman of Darlington, UK Minister for International Development and Africa, are the latest GPEI Polio Gender Champions, committing to support the GPEI Gender Equality Strategyas a concrete effort to highlight the role of gender in polio eradication. “It’s not time to quit – it’s time to recommit!” Click here for an inspirational photo-inspired op-ed by Prof. Ziad A Memish of KSRelief and Dr Hamid Jafari, Director for Polio Eradication in WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean, calling for renewed global solidarity to finish the job of polio eradication. Two billionth dose of nOPV2 administered Marking a landmark achievement, two billion doses of novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2) have now been administered to children around the world, as part of intensified efforts to curb circulating type 2 variant poliovirus outbreaks (cVDPV2). Summary of new polioviruses this week:
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