Polio eradication
Is polio eradication possible?
... formerly polio free areas within the countries reporting cases in 2020 and the quickly increasing cohort of inaccessible unvaccinated children in ...their polio vaccination status, and ensure strong ...
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Determinants of performance of supplemental immunization activities for polio eradication in Uttar Pradesh, India: social mobilization activities of the Social mobilization Network (SM Net) and Core Group Polio Project (CGPP)
... wild polio cases in India have been in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar ...oral polio vaccine (OPV) is given to all children in the target group of 0–5 years as a part of the polio ...
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Performance and determinants of routine immunization coverage within the context of intensive polio eradication activities in Uttar Pradesh, India: Social Mobilization Network (SM Net) and Core Group Polio Project (CGPP)
... tremendous polio eradication effort in India may have affected routine immunization programs for polio and non-polio anti- ...between polio eradica- tion efforts and a decrease in ...
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From their own perspective - constraints in the Polio Eradication Initiative: perceptions of health workers and managers in a district of Pakistan's Punjab province
... oral polio vaccine (OPV) coverage (current coverage of 83%) and 80% routine OPV coverage in every district by 2010 could not be reached ...for polio eradication, sub- district coverage gaps, low ...
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Impact of high intensity polio eradication activities on children’s routine immunization status in Northern India
... The possibility that older children benefit less or are further excluded from the routine immunisation activities in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh offers further space for reflection. In light of the observed patterns, we ...
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Achieving universal health coverage : implementation of a polio eradication intervention to deliver integrated primary health services to hard-to-reach and underserved communities in Nigeria Research
... traditional polio eradication strategies, including increasing immunity through routine immunization, regularly scheduled house-to-house oral polio vaccine supplemental immunization activities and ...
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The role of nurses and midwives in polio eradication and measles control activities: a survey in Sudan and Zambia
... Background: Nurses and midwives are the key providers of nursing and midwifery services; in many countries, they form the major category of frontline workers who provide both preventive and curative services in the ...
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Outcomes of polio eradication activities in Uttar Pradesh, India: the Social Mobilization Network (SM Net) and Core Group Polio Project (CGPP)
... against polio vaccination ...Group Polio Project (now known as CGPP) in six countries, including ...the polio eradication effort by providing both social mobili- zation and detailed local ...
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Role of Serial Polio Seroprevalence Studies in Guiding Implementation of the Polio Eradication Initiative in Kano, Nigeria: 2011-2014.
... 3 polio-endemic countries before it was de-listed in September 2015 by the World Health Orga- nization, following interruption of transmission of the ...serial polio seroprevalence sur- veys (SPS) in Kano ...
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Poliovirus excretion following vaccination with live poliovirus vaccine in patients with primary immunodeficiency disorders: clinicians’ perspectives in the endgame plan for polio eradication
... Results: Six PID patients (4.5%) had detectable vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) excretion in stool specimens; of these, five patients had severe combined immunodeficiency (two with acute flaccid paralysis, one with ...
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EFFECTIVENESS OF MASS POLIO CAMPAIGNS IN THE GLOBAL RESPONSE TO POLIO ERADICATION/ELIMINATION IN AFRICA
... on polio eradication in Africa where citizens reasonably contrast the benefits of polio elimination with benefits of alternate services for their ...of polio eradication activities ...
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Polio Eradication in India: The Lessons Learned
... the polio eradication effort, periodic evaluation and research helped to ensure the program’s success. Some simple program interventions improved overall performance. Novel yet simple measures such as ...
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Support for children identified with acute flaccid paralysis under the Global Polio Eradication Programme in Uttar Pradesh, India: a qualitative study
... We obtained patient information for cases of AFP for the past three years (2005-2007) through primary health centres (PHCs) and local NGOs. We were able to iden- tify 21 out of the 82 confirmed polio cases (25.6%) ...
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Smallpox and polio eradication in India : Comparative histories and lessons for contemporary policy
... . For a variety of reasons, making all these new arrangements was not an easy process, by any means. WHO SEARO retained a great degree of autonomy and its Director continued to harbour serious doubts about the smallpox ...
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Development of a Particle Agglutination Method with Soluble Virus Receptor for Identification of Poliovirus
... Global Polio Eradication Initiative, laboratory diag- nosis plays a critical role by isolating and identifying poliovirus (PV) from stool samples of patients with acute flaccid paralysis ...national ...
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Islamist insurgency and the war against polio: a cross-national analysis of the political determinants of polio
... towards polio vaccination programmes negatively affects the implementation of the ...the eradication of ...to polio vaccination programmes can only be answered definitively with qualitative re- ...to ...
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Potential for international spread of wild poliovirus via travelers
... of polio eradication is hampered by the international spread of poliovirus via ...into polio-free countries, on 5 May 2014, WHO ’ s Director-General declared the international spread of wild ...
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Characteristics of wild polio virus outbreak investigation and response in Ethiopia in 2013–2014: implications for prevention of outbreaks due to importations
... Global Polio Eradication (GPEI) was set up in 1988, when the World Health Assembly (WHA) passed a reso- lution to eradicate polio by the year 2000 ...global polio eradication: 1) high ...
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Non polio enteroviruses in faeces of children diagnosed with acute flaccid paralysis in Nigeria
... Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) was ...(Oral Polio Vaccine [OPV] and Inactivated Polio Vaccine [IPV]) are currently being used by the GPEI and both are very effective ...of ...
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POLIO: A REVIEW
... that polio eradication will be achieved by 2010 or soon after, primarily through ‘national polio days’ where all children in a certain region are given oral polio vaccine (OPV) Poliomyelitis ...
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