by admin | Sep 8, 2023 | health workforce development, Immunization, Vaccines
In June 2023, Dr. Pius Mutuku and his team were alerted of three patients whose lab samples had tested positive for polio from the Hagadera Refugee camp in Garissa County, Kenya. The samples indicated the presence of a non-wild variant of poliovirus, known as...
by admin | Jun 20, 2023 | Technology
See French version here. Once suspected cases of poliomyelitis, which presents as sudden paralysis of the arms or legs, are identified in the community, a race against time begins. Emmanuel Amuri is Head of Branch at LOGISTIQUExpress, a company specializing in the...
by admin | Jun 20, 2023 | data for decision making
The recent detection of poliovirus in places where it hasn’t been found for years has demonstrated the need for improved eradication efforts by governments and partners across the globe. Eradicating a disease isn’t easy, particularly in areas with limited capacity for...
by admin | Jun 20, 2023 | Malawi, Technology
For the past year, VillageReach has been working in 14 countries to reduce the time it takes for stool samples from suspected polio cases to reach the lab where they can be tested. The sooner the lab can determine whether an acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) case is...
by admin | Mar 17, 2023 | Immunization, Mozambique
Polio is an incurable disease that can lead to life-long paralysis in unvaccinated children, and even one confirmed case means that the virus may be quietly spreading in communities. Over the last year, Mozambique and Malawi declared a national health emergency to...
