Africa: WHO Director-General's Remarks At the World Polio Day 2022 and Beyond Event - 21 October 2022
[WHO] President Jennifer Jones, Holger Knaack, Mark Maloney, Ian Riseley and other senior leaders joining us online, (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - October 24, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Polio returns to the US after decline in vaccine uptake
Health threat re-emerges globally as jab coverage misses targets (Source: FT.com - Drugs and Healthcare)
Source: FT.com - Drugs and Healthcare - October 24, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
CDC could bring back oral polio vaccine that contains LIVE VIRUS
The oral polio vaccine could return in America after it was pulled in the US in 2000 because of the relatively small risk it poses of infecting people that receive it. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 21, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Panel Votes to Add COVID-19 Shots to Recommended Vaccinations
NEW YORK — COVID-19 shots should be added to the lists of recommended vaccinations for kids and adults, a panel of U.S. vaccine experts said Thursday.
The panel’s unanimous decision has no immediate effect—COVID-19 shots already are recommended for virtually all Americans. Rather, it would put the shots on the annually updated, formal lists of what vaccinations doctors should be routinely offering to their patients, alongside shots for polio, measles and hepatitis.
The expert panel’s decisions are almost always adopted by the CDC director and then sent to doctors as part of the government’s ad...
Source: TIME: Health - October 21, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mike Stobbe/AP Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
Africa: WHO Director-General's Speech At 'Investing in a Polio-Free Future for More Resilient Health Systems', World Health Summit - 18 October 2022
[WHO] Your Excellency Minister Schulze, (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - October 21, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: Global Leaders Commit U.S.$ 2.6 Billion At World Health Summit To End Polio
[WHO] Today, global leaders confirmed US$ 2.6 billion in funding toward the Global Polio Eradication Initiative's (GPEI) 2022-2026 Strategy to end polio at a pledging moment co-hosted by Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) at the World Health Summit in Berlin. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - October 21, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Progress Toward Poliomyelitis Eradication - Pakistan, January 2021-July 2022
This report describes progress toward polio eradication in Pakistan. (Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - October 20, 2022 Category: American Health Tags: MMWR Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report Polio (poliomyelitis) Polio Vaccination Source Type: news
Polio may resurge globally, WHO says, as countries pledge funds
Various governments pledged $2.6 billion US on Tuesday toward a global plan to again try to eradicate polio, following its comeback, the World Health Organization says. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - October 18, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Health Source Type: news
Liberia: BMGF Pledge To GPEI 2022-2026 Strategy World Health Summit
[New Dawn] With New Commitment, Gates Foundation Joins Call to Help End Polio (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 18, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Africa: UNICEF And WHO Welcome KSrelief Funding For Measles And Polio Epidemics Prevention
[WHO] The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF welcomed today funding agreements from the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief) valued at US$ 10 million to further bolster polio and measles programmes in eight countries. The agreement was signed on the sidelines of the World Health Summit in Berlin. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - October 18, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Gates Foundation Pledges $1.2B to Eradicate Polio Globally
The money also will be used to stop outbreaks of new variants of the virus. (Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care)
Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care - October 17, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Pledge $1.2 Billion to Eradicate Polio Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Pledge $1.2 Billion to Eradicate Polio
Bill& Melinda Gates Foundation said on Sunday that it will commit $1.2 billion to support efforts to end all forms of polio globally.Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - October 17, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news
Tanzania: Govt Establishes Polio Centre
[Daily News] Dodoma -- The Ministry of Health has established a state-of-the-art- Polio Emergency Operations Centre (PEOC) in Dodoma. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 17, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Gates Foundation pledges $1.2B to eradicate polio globally
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says it is committing $1.2 billion to efforts aimed at ending polio worldwide (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - October 16, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Gates Foundation Pledges $1.2 Billion To Polio Eradication
Vaccine-derived polio has been found in wastewater in New York and London in recent months, prompting renewed fears about the largely-eliminated disease. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - October 16, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Madeline Halpert, Forbes Staff Tags: Business /business Innovation /innovation Healthcare /healthcare Breaking breaking-news Source Type: news
