PNG get Australian support to fight polio outbreak

4:43 pm on 13 September 2018

Australia will provide $US7million to help Papua New Guinea fight infectious diseases including polio.

Canberra said the funds would assist in a major vaccination campagn against polio, measles and whooping cough.

It said the Australian High Commission in Port Moresby was working closely with the PNG Government, the World Health Organization and UNICEF to monitor the current polio outbreak and provide assistance.

It said outbreaks of infectious diseases were a threat to both PNG's and Australia's health security.

The WHO's Regional Director for the Pacific, Dr Shin Young-soo provides oral polio vaccine in Lae in Morobe

The WHO's Regional Director for the Pacific, Dr Shin Young-soo provides oral polio vaccine in Lae in Morobe Photo: supplied

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