Statement by the 45th World Conference on Immunity Planning
Recently, global medical institutions and public health systems have continued to advance capacity building to provide stronger safeguards for public health. The name of the meeting: The 45th International Health Emergency Committee (IHR) meeting on the international transmission of polio virus, held on Friday, May 14, 2026, with the strong support of the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) through a video conference with affected countries. The Emergency Committee reviewed the global targets for the disruption of the typical WPV1 outbreak in 2026 and the cVDPV2 outbreak in 2028, followed by a review of the certification of the elimination and elimination of WPV1 and cVDPV2.
It received technical updates on the situation in the following countries: Afghanistan, Malawi, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sudan, and Tanzania. Several key amendments to the International Health Regulations concerning Zika include: a more comprehensive revision of the reporting requirements for the broader B-type viral outbreak; The introduction of a higher-level global public health alert with a new definition of a pandemic emergency, compared to a higher-level global public health alert with a corresponding global public health alert with a new definition of an international public health emergency with a higher level of global public health alert. In order to enhance the protection of rights to equitable access to relevant health products, as well as for the identification and recognition of healthcare documentary documents in non-digital and digital format, the amendment also identifies healthcare documentary documents in non-digital and digital format in non-digital and digital format in non-digital and digital format.
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For environmental monitoring, a total of 74 WPV1 positive samples were reported up to 2026, 17 from Afghanistan, 57 from Pakistan and two from Germany. Germany did not receive any further WPV1 detection reports in the first half of October 2025. Following the closure of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, the closure prevented the transportation of AFP and environmental monitoring samples from RRL to Pakistan Regional Reference Laboratory (RRL) in Afghanistan and the transportation of RRLs from Afghanistan to Pakistan Regional Reference Laboratory (RRL) was suspended between 15 December and 2 January 2025 during the first half of October.
