Polio this week
Polio this week as of 21 June 2016
- On 24 June, stakeholders of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative including member states and donors are gathering in Geneva at the meeting of the Polio Partners Group to review progress and discuss the trivalent to bivalent oral polio vaccine switch, transition planning and the financial resources urgently needed to see eradication through to the end.
- The knowledge, skills and infrastructure built to end polio are helping to make dramatic progress on improving children’s health more broadly. In this factsheet discover how the eradication infrastructure is expanding the reach of health services, improving disease surveillance and building health worker capacity. By planning now, we can keep the world polio-free and ensure that the investments made in ending polio have a broad and lasting impact on children’s health and development, long after polio is gone.
Wild poliovirus type 1 and Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus cases
Total cases |
Year-to-date 2016 |
Year-to-date 2015 |
Total in 2015 |
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WPV |
cVDPV |
WPV |
cVDPV |
WPV |
cVDPV |
|
Globally |
17 |
3 |
29 |
8 |
74 |
32 |
- in endemic countries |
17 |
0 |
29 |
3 |
74 |
3 |
- in non-endemic countries |
0 |
3 |
0 |
5 |
0 |
29 |
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