Polio Immunization Campaign Reaches 5 Million Children in Yemen
Amid escalating violence, UNICEF and partners have completed the first round of a nationwide door-to-door vaccination campaign reaching 5 million children under the age of five with oral polio vaccine and vitamin A supplementation. In the first campaign of its…
Bill Gates Praises India’s Fight against Polio
Health leaders around the world today will acknowledge an important achievement in the fight against polio as India marks one year since the last recorded case of wild poliovirus in the country. This success is stated to be the result…
Gates Foundation Activities for World Polio Day
On this year’s World Polio Day, Oct. 24, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a global community of partners are calling for increased commitment and greater accountability from political leaders to end polio, and for supporters around the world…














