Polio eradication this week:
- India will pass one year without a single child being paralyzed by polio, for the first time in history, on 13 January, if no cases are reported in the coming week and if all pending samples return negative in the coming weeks. Maintaining sensitive surveillance and high childhood immunity will be of prime importance for India to continue protecting its children.
- The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon continues to closely follow polio eradication issues, and has recently written to the heads of state of Nigeria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Chad and the Democratic Republic of the Congo highlighting the urgent need to complete polio eradication.