Headlines:

• A key priority in 2023 is to end both wild- and variant polio transmission around the world by focusing on the most consequential geographies where children are at the highest risk of encountering and spreading the virus, and which collectively accounted for 90% of all new polio cases worldwide in 2022. Northern Nigeria is one of these seven subnational areas that now hold the key to a polio-free world.[Read more] (https://polioeradication.org/news-post/2023-a-critical-year-for-polio-eradication-efforts-in-northern-nigeria/)...

• "My job in the polio programme was to raise awareness about the vaccine, check for polio cases in the community and deliver two drops of polio vaccine to children under five years, wishing to see a polio-free Afghanistan before my retirement. I still have this wish. It would be my honour to support the programme to fulfill this wish," -- Dr Abdul Rahman Ghafoori, a polio eradicator in Afghanistan