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• Nearly 1 billion people globally are served by health care facilities that do not have regular or consistent power. Unreliable energy disrupts routine and emergency care—from running diagnostic tests to ensuring vaccines stay cold. As heatwaves, floods, and other extreme weather events become more common, energy disruptions are expected to increase due to events like power outages and heat stress on existing infrastructure. To address these challenges in the last mile of polio eradication and reduce its carbon footprint, the GPEI and partners have turned to solar power, a more affordable, reliable and climate-resilient energy source to power polio vaccination and surveillance activities. Read more

• Pakistan, one of the last two endemic countries for wild polio, is closer than ever before to ending this devastating disease for good. However, many experts say Pakistan is among the countries most vulnerable to the climate crisis. As the world becomes hotter, more frequent and severe heatwaves, intense droughts, and devastating floods, threaten the incredible progress that has been made against polio.  Read more

• Afghanistan: seven WPV1-positive environmental samples
  Pakistan: one WPV1 case and nine positive environmental samples
  Algeria: one cVDPV2-positive environmental sample
  Chad: five cVDPV2 cases
  Côte d’Ivoire: three cVDPV2-positive environmental samples
  DR Congo: four cVDPV1 cases, four cVDPV2 cases and five cVDPV2 positive environmental samples
  Guinea: five cVDPV2 cases and one positive environmental sample
  Kenya: three cVDPV2-positive environmental samples
  Nigeria: eight cVDPV2 cases and nine positive environmental samples
  Somalia: one cVDPV2 case and one positive environmental sample
  Tanzania: one cVDPV2-positive environmental sample
  Zimbabwe:two cVDPV2-positive environmental samples