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Polio this week
‘Leading to Zero’ – Global Health Matters podcast featuring Jamal Ahmed
‘Leading to Zero’, an episode of the award-winning Global Health Matters podcast series, features Dr Jamal Ahmed, Director for Polio Eradication and Vaccine-Preventable Diseases in WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean, speaking about leadership in polio eradication. The episode explores polio eradication and malaria elimination, focusing on the determination and commitment required to finally end a disease. The podcast addresses questions like: What does it take to lead an effort all the way to zero? How is commitment sustained across decades and changing governments? And what happens the day after certification, when the vector remains and imported cases still arrive?
African health leaders convene for annual Regional Committee
The 76th session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa is meeting this week in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to discuss urgent health issues affecting the region, including the Ebola outbreak response in DR Congo, responses to other outbreaks, as well as achieving and sustaining a lasting polio-free Africa.
Summary of new polioviruses this week
- Afghanistan: 18 WPV1-positive environmental samples
- DR Congo: five cVDPV2 cases
- Nigeria: two cVDPV2 cases