Polio Bulletin (35-36) - 9 September 2023

GPEI Statement on the Independent Monitoring Board’s Review of its 2022-2026 Strategy

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) welcomes the latest report from the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB), which presents a rigorous independent review of the programme’s progress toward its goals — aiming to interrupt all remaining wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) transmission and circulating variant poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) transmission by the end of 2023. The IMB concludes that despite recent progress toward eradication, remaining challenges make stopping transmission of WPV1 this year unlikely, while ending all variant poliovirus outbreaks will take even more time.
Complete statement: https://polioeradication.org/news-post/gpei-statement-on-the-independent-monitoring-boards-review-of-its-2022-2026-strategy/