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Pakistan polio eradication progress

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2026-07-29 08:21 UTC → 2026-08-10 16:10 UTC · added removed

In the first half of 2026 2026, Pakistan’s National Emergency Operations Center reported a sharp decline in environmental poliovirus detection, with positivity falling from 48.1% a year earlier to 13.1% across 127 samples. Only ten samples tested positive, with negative results recorded in Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and the Balochistan. The country recorded three has confirmed three polio cases, cases so far in 2026, continuing a long‑term long-term reduction from an estimated 20,000 cases in the early 1990s to 31 in 2025. A week later, WHO Regional Director Dr. Hanan Balkhy emphasized that the nation now has a realistic chance “genuine opportunity” to stop wild‑polio wild-polio transmission within the next six to twelve months. Officials, including To map final eradication steps, high-level officials—including the health minister Prime Minister and the prime minister, met Minister of State for Health—met with the Global Polio Eradication Initiative’s Independent Monitoring Board to map final eradication steps. Remaining Board. While transmission is largely confined to hard‑to‑reach hard-to-reach areas of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where security challenges impede vaccination, prompting intensified surveillance now covers more than 12,500 acute flaccid paralysis reporting sites. To combat remaining risks, a four-day vaccination campaign was launched in August 2026, targeting approximately 1.04 million children across 170 high-risk union councils in Islamabad and outreach efforts. Rawalpindi. Despite a 99.8% reduction in cases since 1994, officials noted that vaccine refusal, misinformation, and security threats to health workers continue to challenge eradication efforts in regions such as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan.

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